'Admiring a Lady' is a multi-perspective study in portraiture that displays the unique experience of eight different women. The work is set in a landscape of personal spaces selected and arranged by the subjects themselves, emphasising spatial eloquence and its relationship to identity.

Raffi's sitters are women she respects and admires, selected because of the striking and divergent ways that they inhabit femininity. Capturing these intriguing qualities becomes a vehicle for exhibiting, and, more importantly, admiring the brave and resourceful ways that women both inhabit and resist feminine roles and proprieties. What emerges is a conceptual and affective thematic of admiration.

At the heart of 'Admiring a Lady' is a reverence of the subject.

Words. Dion Kagan

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Alice
Alice's TV
Charelle
Charelle's Kitchen
Dione
Dione's Handbags
Emily
Mariella
Mariella's Kitchen
Noni and Betty
Sally's Sandpit
Admiring a Lady Installation, Seventh Gallery, September 2006