Behold the child

Behold the child

Gender, role play,

stereo types,

traditions of the last generation,

the Romantic poets,

wearing the wrong clothes,

wearing men's clothes,

expectations, aspirations,

sex, angst, drama, loss,

charity shop suits,

cut out clothes,

comics for girls,

ambition, boiler suits,

androgyny, gender bending

we called it in the 1970s.

Voile dresses, pointy bras,

Gene Kelly, Debbie Fisher,

the brick wall

on the album cover.

Ladybird illustration of the Milky Way,

space.

Stages, entrances and exits,

velvet stage curtains,

blood,

passive aggression,

school uniform, white gloves,

navy knickers,

blue eye shadow, perfect skin,

Diana Dors,

Clockwork Orange,

Columbine and Harlequin,

crossed wires and cross dressing,

paper dolls,

behold the child.