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So very beautiful!

This piece stirred something intense in me. It's visually serene, with a soft lavender palette, impasto texture, and a central figure who feels strong and graceful. But the background figures hit me hard. Their postures reminded me of cotton-picking imagery from American slavery, and I felt a wave of anxiety I didn't expect. I don't think that was your intention. Based on your other work and knowing how easily AI models pull from biased visual histories, I suspect it wasn't. Still, the juxtaposition made me stop and examine my own reactions, my history, and the painful legacies that still shape the world I live in. I cried, actually. I'm still sitting with it. That's what powerful art does: it unsettles, provokes, and asks questions we don't always have answers to.

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@Em93

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@SandraAl 25 credits

🥉 3rd Place

@MimTev 10 credits

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