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Description: With the primary aim of presenting the body as abstract sculpture, I take recourse in traditional Japanese samurai wartechniques and rope-bondage shibari/ kinbaku. This is presented through the media of video and sound . The video’s visual focus is the anatomical transformation arising from binding and gravity. nnnnShibari: to tie or bind Kinbaku: to tie or bind tightlynnThe practice of shibari/ kinbaku dates back at least 700 years to the age of the Samurai. Warriors used rope to immobilise p