SALOME and The Red Necklace Stoneware with ceramic glazed beads W 54cm H 105cm 2006
	Beautiful lush voluptuous woman though strangely unsexual and childlike Salome was the daughter but previous marriage of Herodia wife of Herod at the time of Christ. Salome danced for Herod the Dance of the Seven Veils Herod was so impressed by the dance he said she could have anything she wanted. She asked her mother what to ask for, her mother (who was angry with John the Baptist as he has said her marriage to Herod was a sham) said ask for the head of John the Baptist on a platter. And John was beheaded his head put on a platter was presented to Salome. So the innocence of Salome is marked by with her mothers pride, the red necklace representing the mothers pride and vanity and the beads of blood dropping from the severed head of the saint.
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