Cloth is not only better than flesh, more purely beautiful, but it can seem to be more holy and thus more appropriate to the figuring forth of paradise. It is not, after all, subject to sin.

Anne Hollander, Seeing Through Clothes

Travelling through Europe, retracing Western art, I realised that our whole history is bound in fabric. Bunched, billowing, draped, or reposing in an irregular poetry of random folds, the excessive yardage of painted cloth is more abundantly wrought than that of painted flesh.

Annunciation is a re-presentation of the Annunciation scene, painted by early Renaissance masters: Jan Van Eyck, Fra Angelico, and Leonardo da Vinci. The vibrant red robe of the Angel Gabriel, the cool blue robe of the Virgin Mary, and the purity of the white lily are recreated to symbolise this intense moment of religious rapture.