Ink drawings done on 3 ply tissues, then peeled back to reveal a blotted line style drawing, distorting the figure. I like the idea of Mary Magdelene as "temptress", a flame haired prostitute etc... speculation around her role in the bible and her dipiction in biblical images as a red haired, lost soul, looking to the heavens really interest me. There is something which says 'defenseless woman' to me and reminds me of a Vermeer painting. I guess the first time a prostitute was ever explained to me I was 10 and had encountered the word in the bible, I asked my mother what it was.. also the first time I had heard my mother say the word 'sex'... which threw me completely!!
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