When do you, and how do you, accept the attributes you’ve got, and go further – beyond the signposts of identity, beyond habit, perhaps despite it all but still with it all?

Suzanne “awoke” to self-consciousness – can one “awake” again to another stage? – perhaps self-bearing, self-conscious but having dropped any shame or judgement via comparison with others or direct comments from others.

This is about a woman who has been a long time “In Her Hair”; it had grown long and heavy, she has to grab it with a full fist to move it away from her face as her head turns to see and speak. It has been and can still be a comfort, but shall no longer be camouflage or an outright place to hide. She just begins to rise from her kneeling position, her right foot begins to push her up, as well as does her left hand on her thigh.

This piece is also Luberon limestone at its best, fine-grained, luminous, holding subtle modeling and details well.