Emer G. Majella

The girl in the foxglove bolero stands bold and beautiful. She’s a tiny thing from the eighties, her bolero jacket the fashion statement of the day. The foxgloves on her sleeves symbolise ambivalence, insincerity, and mending. These woodland foxgloves are both medicinal and toxic, creating a balance between healing and simplicity that offers protection.

The girl is watching, anticipating through a left-centre window surrounded by '36' sections of joy-sparking fused glass. Seventy one colours of bullseye, opaque and transparent, were used in the making of the piece. '36' is the metric of a yard of fabric that represents harmony between the physical world and spiritual inquiry. In Judaism, it is believed that '36' hidden righteous people sustain the world. In art, '36' represents balance and symmetry.

The question posed is “when”; she has everything and nothing if she is to remain alone.