The Seduction series is El Zein’s most autobiographical. It tells a sequential story in which an initial emotional distance is overcome, arriving step by explorative step into blissful union. In conversation, she narrates this story in fragments, shifting in and out of first-person. Here, for example, is her description of the first piece in the series, which has two independent forms: I had to understand how to reconnect again with my own body. And that has different stages. Two people —one bending too close, the other can’t be touched. One (him) is rocking, and that expresses flirtation, dialogue. Moving and approaching. And I’m not ready, I’m completely closed, folded onto myself.