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The West, with its muscular heroes and celebration of individual emotional power, was seductive in its promise of visibility and agency.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTo belong felt like a bargain: freedom in exchange for your truth.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThese works hold that tension. Rendered in stark monochrome and wrapped in saturated cultural pattern, the body becomes a site where assimilation and cultural identity press against each other. At times the garment reads as armor; at others, as skin. Abstraction interrupts like doubt—like history insisting on its presence.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eI did not always love the body—my body. I have known its shame and fracture. But this series does not end in erasure. 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