inspired by Saint Joan by Bernard Shaw O level text in 1975

Emulsion and paper on glass 12 x 9 cm 2022

I will not dress as a woman. I do not care for the things women care for. They dream of lovers, and of money. I dream of leading a charge and placing big guns.Joan, pg. 92

I was admonished to adopt feminine clothes; I refused, and still refuse. As for other evocations of women, there are plenty of other women to perform them.

Flowers for Joan roses and lilies the flowers of martyrdom.