"Self-portrait"
"Self-portrait"
2024
Figured I'm due for a self-portrait. Featuring a beautiful black and gold keffiyeh that I got at a pro-Palestine protest earlier this month.
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The Men of the West were trapped, and soon, all about the grey mounds where they stood, forces ten times and more than ten times their match would ring them in a sea of enemies. Sauron had taken the proffered bait in jaws of steel.
-"The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King", by J.R.R. Tolkien
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