Having lived a life of intimate involvement and vital necessity - a life of women’s work - she stands as a monument which cries out in distress to heaven. For, as Gunn writes, “salt is [also] tears, anguish for the women and children of Sodom.”
'The choice of colours, the thickness and length of the wool all work together to create possibilities within the highly structured grid of the canvas backing. There was a sense in which the relationship between these limitations and possibilities...