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Northshore October 2025
Three years ago, artist Zarah Hussain could hardly breathe.  “I was coughing, I was having trouble walking uphill, and I just wasn’t getting enough air into my lungs,” she says in a Q&A with the Peabody Essex Museum. It turned out to be an issue with her diaphragm, and after corrective surgery, she had to learn how to breathe again.  During her healing process, she began painting—visually conveying how her lungs felt as they relearned a basic function that most of us take for granted. That was, until about a year ago. Photograph by Kathy Tarantola In 2020, COVID-19 swept the world. And Hussain brought out her old
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