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  • These images asked to be turned into 3-dimensional drawings. They needed that extra power which is imbued upon an object permeating a space.

    Dietrich reposes against a wall, cigarette smoke obscuring her face, dressed in casual (non-gender specific) clothes - oozing the confidence I have admired her for all my life. She assesses, judges and surveys the room with the ease of someone who knows better than us all.

    Elizabeth Taylor is pinned to the floor by anonymous male hands. We recognise her job here is to cast her famous hands forever in the concrete Hollywood Walk of Fame. She is a model of perfection, trapped by her own notoriety and on the surface pleased to be so.

    Judy Garland - the ultimate tragedy of stardom. Life is imitated by art when she receives a slap in the face in return for her success in the final scenes of ‘A Star is Born’ (1954). Symbolic on so many levels I can’t even begin to go into them!

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