The serpent has persisted across cultures as an ambivalent symbol: life force (kundalini), wisdom and rebirth (Ouroboros), poison and predator. In a moment shaped by ecological crisis, political upheaval, and renewed attention to embodied identities, the serpent’s liminality—between human and animal, sacred and profane—offers fertile ground for artists to interrogate cycles of consumption, regeneration, transgression, and hidden power.
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“The serpent does not merely crawl; it composes. It draws the line between terror and transcendence, the umbilical cord and the venomous fang.” The serpent has persisted across cultures as an