The figure stands beside a towering cactus, one leg lifted as if caught mid-step—or mid-thought. The posture is tentative, the gaze lowered, the body exposed not in confidence but in caution. The cactus, tall and spined, offers no comfort. It looms—not hostile, but indifferent. The sky is clear, the hills distant, but the emotional weather is unmistakable: this is not a homecoming. This is a threshold that does not open.
In Unwelcomed, the desert no longer feels neutral. The landscape, once a place of reflection or reckoning, now feels like it’s made its decision. The figure is present, but not received. The cactus, once anthropomorphized into witness or parent, now becomes gatekeeper. And the gate is closed.
 
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