#Blood

Bleeding is the body’s theatrical performance in which blood attempts a daring escape into the outside world. It rolls out the crimson carpet of pain, eliciting both sympathy and commotion. Like an accelerated repayment of life’s tab, it frantically colors medical scenes and feeds social media’s appetite for gore. Gauze bears the silent burden of prayers for hemostasis—an accomplice or the victim’s own cry. In any case, bleeding stands as a symbol trembling between survival and terror in civilized existence.

Plasma is the translucent soup produced by the chemical factory of the human body. Celebrated as the carrier of life, it is in practice poured into test tubes to sate the curiosity of physicians as a polite social beverage. It serves as a universal scapegoat each time dehydration or anemia is lamented. Forgotten in peace and frantically summoned with IV pumps in crisis, it is the unsung hero behind the scenes.