A young woman tilts her head, eyes bound by a rope that runs between two thick blue books pressed to her temples. The blindfold turns “learning” into limitation—education that can obscure as much as it reveals—while her cowrie-shell choker asserts lineage, value, and self-knowledge. Cool violets and reds model the skin like stage light, heightening the tension between sanctioned narratives and lived experience. The work asks what it takes to read past the canon and look with one’s own eyes.
