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    Cold Specks: Wild Card

    Somali-Canadian artist Lasan Hussein, aka Cold Specks, intimately explores her dual heritage through personal history and the life her family left in Mogadishu.

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    By Ariana Morgenstern • Oct 4, 2017 • 1 min read

    Somali-Canadian artist Lasan Hussein, aka Cold Specks, intimately explores her dual heritage through personal history and the life her family left in Mogadishu. Wild Card is the sound of finding home, identity and self-love.

    Photo by Neva Wireko

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