An artistic volume teases out the cultural, religious and social significance of human hair.
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WE LOVE it cascading from a woman’s head, long, thick and lustrous. We admire it arching above a smokily kohled eye. But catch a hair in the mouth or, worse, in the back of the throat and the reaction is repulsion. Find a strand, a strand that is not ours, floating in a bowl of soup and the meal is ruined. Defiled even.
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