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But here's what breaks my heart as an artist: our mission—like it or not—is to bridge and heal, to seek new perspectives, to go beyond "this" world to a zone of freedom and love. We exist to express what is suppressed. When art is weaponized, when culture becomes a tool of exclusion and hatred, what is left?