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The material tells you,
"Okay, you are doing quite well."

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"I like you like this."

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"Go further. Stop here."

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You play and you test your borders,
as a small chihuahua, or dog.

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You try to see who is the master
and the material always stops you.

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Mostly I take my works from anecdotes,
like my childhood.

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I was born in Kurdistan, Iraq.

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Kurdistan is a minority in Iraq.

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Color TVs didn't come to Kurdistan because

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the government is not investing always
in those minority areas.

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So my father was putting color foil
on the TV.

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One week we had it red,
one week we had blue.

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The whole city was doing that.

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It's a very silent protest.