Natalie Arber, Exit Pains (PEOPLE & PORTRAIT 2025)

The escape is not through a door. It is through a storm. There is no map. No emergency exit. We are the pilot. We navigate through painful strokes, choreographed by loops of hypervigilance. And the fuel? Hope sandwiches.

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