Tunnel Vision

Tiahuia Arapeta

23 August - 13 September 2026

Made in a season of dismantling; walls built without knowing it, walls that kept me safe and, in time, kept me smaller than I was: dissolved, diluted, weighed down with obligation. Old wounds resurfaced as I began building something new and true alongside another.

Six layers, each opening smaller than the last, hold the residue of that undoing; not gentler, but more careful, as I learned to dismantle without also destroying. At the very back, unmarked, runs the same blood, the same current, beneath every self I have been. The fear of unravelling still visits; the old instinct to see a fracture and call it collapse. But so does the quiet certainty that what comes next won't ask me to go missing again.

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