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My painting is an act of decolonization—not in a physical sense, but in a mental one.
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The speaker does not mean removing colonial control from land or institutions. They mean using painting to change the mind: to question ideas, values, or ways of seeing that colonialism has imposed. In this sense, painting becomes a mental act of release and resistance, rather than a physical political change.
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