| 'Witches Gasp' - In a time when old women are still falsely accused of the most heinous crimes, the protagonist holds aloft the head of the artist in her attempt to illumine the breathless darkness of gender inequality and social injustice. The mistakes of youth put behind, experience at hand, this solitudinarian recluse, at the dusk of her life, allows even persecution to fall into its place, capable of processing everything in the light of acquired wisdom. She is the spiritual mystery of the querent seeking clarity in the dark nature of man, where the inexplicable sacrament of ageing and oppressive twists of culture becomes entangled, giving rise to a curse and a motive for persecutory injustices. Unstoppable, unmasked she presses on, fighting for her rights, to the very last gasp. Luke Martin |
