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ScalpelTradesOneHarmForAnother

The scalpel opens skin to extract the tumor. It claims precision yet multiplies the damage. Blood flows across the table. Stitches close the gap but never the altered path. The patient wakes with less of the old illness and more of the new. Doctors record success by the inch.
A punk zine cut-and-paste collage of a torn paper silhouette lying supine, its jagged edge stitched shut with a hand-drawn red thread that trails off into a...
An abstract cut-paper fragment shaped like a surgical instrument reduced to a geometric silhouette, overprinted with a jagged red line that doubles back on i...
A small torn photocopy fragment showing a hand-inked measuring line multiplying into three crooked, unequal lines across bone-colored paper, rendered in raw...