Dissimilation (Black Star) presents a masked figure standing before a banner with ideologically charged Arabic text. The image is drawn from a video posted by a terrorist—edited, stylized, and reframed within the logic of the series. The figure’s face is fully covered, eyes visible, posture deliberate. This is not concealment for protection. It is concealment as threat.

The mask here is not worn to enter the system—it is worn to reject it. The figure operates outside the bounds of national identity, legality, and visibility. And yet, the image is structured like the others: chromatic star, stylized composition, high contrast. The threat is not just in the figure—it is in the familiarity of the format.

The black star marks the work’s position within the series—a chromatic component without symbolic interpretation. What matters is the alignment: each canvas refracts the same idea from a different angle.

Dissimilation (Black Star) reveals another mask—one worn not to protect, perform, or resist, but to threaten. It is not a declaration of belief. It is a refusal to be seen, a refusal to belong, a refusal to conform. The image does not ask to be understood. It asks to be feared.