Significance with Purity (2019) 写真撮影 Martin Vallis によって

Growing up, it was always impressed on me that white represented, Purity, Good, maybe represented by Virginity? This particularly, I think in relation to women more than men but not exclusive, in the sense that it was chaste? As well as the Host in the ‘Holy’ Communion.

In some countries, probably Catholic, it was tradition to hang out the white bed sheet after the wedding night spattered with blood. What’s that all about? Is it a celebration of women hood or announcing she’s no longer pure?

In adulthood white or the idea of it has been proved to be anything but!

The early Crusades. The Crusaders and their horses are often portrayed wearing white tunics with red crosses. Is the red significant, to the bloodshed they spilt? For some the idea of White supremacy represented by the ideology of the Ku Klux Klan or the Arian Master Race and once again the Church and it’s so called ‘Holiness’!’ Now tells me/us that white now has a very different story.




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