PAPER VIRGINS

Essentially, the Paper Virgins are an attempt to pull together the threads of both historical and contemporary images of women and try to clarify the connection between them. They seek to expose traditional ‘Christian' images of women as the propaganda of social control and highlight the current female iconography as a direct result of the constructs behind those images. The work comprises three separate themes, with The Life of a Virgin and Seven Saints containing a brief text and historical quote to highlight the underlying messages presented within them... This allegorical ‘paper' Mary is the product of nearly two thousand years of religious ideas, moulded and transformed by the demands of paternalistic culture.