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Really enjoyed coming across this exhibit currently showing at the the Pompidou. Featuring the work of Jacques Villegle, it's about what's revealed as posters or paper are pasted in layers then torn over time. That's not unlike self-discovery (or discovery of another) where painful tears can be made to the spirit, prompting us to change, to overcome, to heal. Although we may change (for the better) over time, the essential beauty remains

I found a lot of this in NYC streets a couple of summers ago, and some of the images are quite haunting, as if the faces had something to say, but were trapped in muteness: