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City of Women is an encounter with the confusion about what happens to a woman's body over her lifetime. We become divided subjects from the beginning — separated from the womb and ourselves in birth. Then the divided mind, now we become both subject and object, observer and the observed.
The female body is a mystery, as is the psyche. The house is the body and the body is the house. A woman's life is defined by her seasonality and whether she will be able to move forward as her body and life change. Women rely on each other; sometimes they are bound together in sisterhood, sometimes weighed down by responsibility, indebtedness, enslavement. They can travel in isolation; sometimes they move together. Their bodies are inscribed with markings; there is surrender to the fate of the body, destiny, death.
A woman's body is a meditation.
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