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[STEPHANIE SYJUCO]
If we're to look at the complexity of
our contemporary culture,

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our political moment,

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our lived realities--

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I want my work to be as complicated as well.

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That there isn't just one way to look at it--

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depending on your perspective,
you'll see it a different way.

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And I also wanted to inhabit contradictions.

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--Alright, fierce.

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And so, looking at images of protest,

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we created these composite characters.

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And so they're fictions.

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Black-clad individuals are usually
associated with a very direct action.

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Is it a character that one finds problematic

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or is it something that might elicit even
some empathy?