As it happens, the ghetto walls surrounding women's art are steadily being dismantled from within.
Jalal, an Iraqi refugee in his early 20s, watched his camp being dismantled from a distance.
Some tall buildings are dismantled from the top down, the work hidden by a moving scaffold, others from the bottom up, the entire structure being slowly jacked down.
But the fact remains that Mohamad is now being deported, and the portraits capture his state of purgatory – undone by his voice, he now belongs nowhere, and all the apparatus of life has been dismantled from under him.
My dreams of working there after college were dashed, though, when I witnessed the lintel bearing the words "The Tribune" being dismantled from the paper's former headquarters in Printing House Square in Lower Manhattan on what I remember was the very same day that The Trib's new owners declared it dead.
The garden includes a dry stone wall, which was dismantled from its original site in Yorkshire and reassembled in Chelsea.
Having grown up in Hong Kong, I watch with great trepidation as democracy is slowly being dismantled from a society and micro-culture that has lived too many generations to function any other way.
Donald Trump's latest budget proposal outlined a host of harsh cuts that targeted mainly the poor, his EPA has worked to abdicate its responsibility to ensure the nation has clean air and water, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is being dismantled from the inside, and Trump's congressional allies want to make it harder for poor people especially children and the elderly to eat.
Although the four humors theory was dismantled from 19th century, the definitive methods of Hippocratic medicine clinical diagnostics of abnormal humors have survived intact in the medical system of Uighur people in China.
The life-size galleys and pirate ships were dismantled to prevent them from being used by competing studios.
