After 9/11 , a new political dimension appeared in her work . '' Conversation '' , for example , is a video installation made during Khalid 's time at the Rijksakademie . The work was about her response to the violence inflicted on Afghanistan in the name of counter-terrorism . Throughout the work , a rose is slowly embroidered by a brown-skinned hand , while at the same time another rose is unpicked , removed , and subsequently erased by a white hand using a needle
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September 11 attacks
Aisha Khalid