'Ser'

And from this moment on, I celebrate myself every day.

This work concludes a series built on a simple question: what price do we pay when we become visible? The four previous works documented that process from within. The rigidity of someone who lives as if in a box, the absence of someone who exists on autopilot, the effort of someone trying to recognize themselves, the physical weight of someone beginning to feel but not yet knowing what to do with it. This scene doesn't continue that process; it celebrates it.

The previous versions are there, but they no longer occupy the same space. They are no longer him. But they haven't completely disappeared either, because to say goodbye to them, I had to acknowledge them, and that's what I'm trying to do with this work.

And then, there's me. The one who today celebrates who he is, and who he always wanted to be, but even more so, the one who says goodbye to everything that brought him here.

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