Touch: "Pain"






"We tend to think of torture in the name of beauty as an aberration of the ancients, but there are modern scourging parlors." 
Society has changed the concept of pain. Somehow, we can accept certain pains and rebuff others. "No pain no gain" or "Beauty is pain". These drawings are meant to represent the things people do to themselves every day, inflicting their own pain and calling it normal.

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