Women’s lives have multiple facets. Perception is not reality for most. There is an expectation of serenity, of beauty, of nurturing, of calm. There is often a reality of anxiety, of stress, of intelligence, of postponement, of guilt, of ambition.

I think of fracturing, of fragmentation, of disintegration and of decay. I think of external perception as opposed to knowledge - of questions unasked and questions unanswered.

All these thoughts came together to produce this set of images.

A rose at its loveliest is already dying.......but there can be so much more.

Joan Goldfarb