Smoker (Lover Not a Fighter) presents a figure mid-gesture, suspended in the quiet theater of a single action. Shahryar Nashat, known for his investigations into the body as cultural artifact and site of desire, brings his characteristic cool precision to this 2016 work executed in silkscreen and inkjet on paper. The combination of printmaking processes allows Nashat to layer mechanical reproduction with photographic intimacy, producing a surface that feels simultaneously clinical and charged. The title's parenthetical qualifier softens the image even as it complicates it, folding tenderness and defiance into a single frame. Nashat's practice has long occupied the space where sculpture, video, and image-making converge around questions of physicality, vulnerability, and the aesthetics of the everyday body. This work carries that sensibility into a flat, graphic register, where the act of smoking becomes a performance of selfhood rather than mere habit. The framing device, an artist frame integral to the work's conception, reinforces Nashat's interest in presentation as meaning, in the idea that how a body or an image is held shapes what we understand it to be. Measuring approximately 91 by 122 centimeters, the piece commands wall presence without aggression, drawing the viewer into close looking. The work is signed by the artist and offered in good condition, with shipping or local pickup available through Honor Fraser Gallery in Los Angeles. This piece benefits Swing Left, a political organization, and acquisition is subject to applicable Federal Election Commission guidelines governing contributions.