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Hug metal fence cribs…

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Hug metal fence cribs ... unpainted wood desks ... therapy sessions ... applications that don't adhere ... This is a juxtaposition of protection and confinement exploring absurd childish institutional trauma ... Education wounds ... The infant and toddler crib as vehicle ... vessel ... nursery furniture becoming a cage and cold see through confinement ... Childhood safety revealed as imprisonment ... This weaponized domestic tool ... Fence crib addressing school to prison pipeline ... How institutions that claim to protect children actually usually trap them ... Protection instinct ... A porcelain mask in a frying pan suggests domestic ritual ... a flat head as meal being prepared with care ... Cast iron pan makes identity something that cooks ... A glossy white African Kabuki mask with vivid red lips in a black frying pan protests assimilation pressure ... identity literally being cooked to palatability ... This evidence exposes how care structures become control mechanisms ... using familiar forms to reveal systemic misgivings ... and if pushed too far the result can be fatal violence

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