WHAT DOES IS LOOK LIKE TO REFUSE AND TO BE REFUSED?
WHAT ASPECTS OF OUR WORK MAKE YOU MOST UNCOMFORTABLE & HOW DO YOU NAVIGATE THEM?

WE STEPPED THROUGH THE FOLIAGE TOWARDS THE ENTRANCE OF THE CHURCH RUINS AND HEARD A SNAKE

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Research Journal Entry No. 7
I am lost in the thick of it. I have lost my thread. Over and over, I hear myself nearing and fearing the possibility that oppression comes hand in hand with civilization, that the women in my family were just born into it, as was I. We will never know when our customs and traditions worked for us, and when they stopped working for us, because there is no written history of it, and even when history started to be ‘written’ -- it was poisoned with religious and national agendas. Just as Armen claimed that the west poisoned the divine love of the east.
Who poisoned whom, I don’t care anymore.
These flashbacks, this neo-nostalgia -- is exhausting.
I imagine that in retrospect, I will think of this journey as the beginnings of a ‘healing’ ...but I’d like to skip to the futurism part already.

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