A figure in profile stands bare-chested, a thick block of books replacing the head and bound tight with rope. The coloured spines (reds, greens, blues, white) read like stacked curricula—or sanctioned histories—while the rope suggests control, censorship and the pressure to conform. A red bead necklace rests across the chest, quietly asserting heritage and personhood against the imposed order above. With calm posture and precise light, the work asks whose narratives we are taught to carry, and what it costs to see—and be seen—beyond them.
