Patriarchy’s Tariff ( For Mistresses and Workers)

Time is ticking, beauty fades away. The girl on the left (the mistress) is caught in a meat hook that instead of a weighing scale, ends up to a chronometer. The weight of time. Time is money. Time is written also on the taximeter, 25 stands for the years that can be accepted as the end of youth. The recycling symbol is a kind of ying and yang but in a context of cruelty.The door knob as a hand symbolism, refers to the objectification of women by the patriarchic society and the passive acceptance of this by women. The key to open the door and to be free is up of the hand that seeks and reaches out for help. In the middle there is a male death mask symbolizing this society. Death masks were only manufactured for important males (kings, rich people and notorious criminals). The conch is about the hidden sexuality and femininity. It is standing above the woman on the right, the worker; the female worker who supported her country, her society and her family in years of peace and in years of war; the enslaved woman with a noose around her neck and a screw nailed on her palm. The compass points at a destination that she will never be able to travel to. This trap is set since her birth. There comes the symbolism of the safety pin with the heart and the cross. This is a pin that the attendants of the Eastern Orthodox Church baptism wear as a kind of proof when a baby is being baptized (with a blue ribbon for boys and a pink ribbon for girls are given as a gift).