It may be that the image which appears ambivalent about its message which gains more power by allowing the viewer room to wonder.Seruton writes in his’ Gentle regrets. Thoughts from Life’ that ‘ Shakespeare’s plays are works of philosophy - philsophy not argued but shown.’ Some images work in the same manner, underpinned by humanist values, they may become timeless.Yet- can they be universal?

” Burkhas and Stilletos” is the forthcoming case study looking more closely at how women shape their identities by clothing.

” Art may affirm its life-giving soil or repudiate it wholly. It may mock bitterly as did Goya, be partisan as Daumier, discover beauty within the sordid and real as Toulouse-Lautrec.” Ben Shahn ‘The Shape of Content’ pg 7