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While epitomizing a summer's day in her clothes and demeanor, there is the art of illusion. Her makeup and clothes embody a serious kind of play -- a theater of self and a special kind of performance art. Gender ambiguity subverts our codes and expectations of male and female roles. Here adornment creates a mask, a subterfuge, that underlines and challenges the mask that we all wear. I feel sympathetic and compassion for the look of pleading for acceptance in her eyes.
