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Mural “Voices Across the Line” / Victoria BC, Canada, 2024

The work explores the theme of boundaries — physical, social, and psychological. Two adjacent portraits are perceived through a fence, which becomes a metaphor for systems of control, separation, and unequal access to freedom and visibility. Stripped of specific identity, the figures invite the viewer to read them as a collective experience: migration, labor, war, and the condition of existing “on the other side” of societal structures. The work raises questions about who defines these boundaries and whom they are truly meant to protect.

The work explores the theme of boundaries — physical, social, and psychological. Two adjacent portraits are perceived through a fence, which becomes a metaphor for systems of control, separation, and unequal access to freedom and visibility. Stripped of specific identity, the figures invite the viewer to read them as a collective experience: migration, labor, war, and the condition of existing “on the other side” of societal structures. The work raises questions about who defines these boundaries and whom they are truly meant to protect.
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