was commissioned by the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, for the 2007 Hamlyn Performance of Puccini's opera

For the first time in the history of the Opera House, public art texts were projected onto the main curtain as introductions to each of the three acts of .

explores the experiences of passion, sexual desire, jealousy, infidelity and violence in the lives of Ivy, Jeanne, Mary, Leonie, Rita and Isabelle, six women aged between 60 and 84.

Discussing their life experiences candidly reveals truths pertinent to the themes of particularly the misuse of power in relation to men's sexual impulses to control women.

This same imposition of male power is seen in Baron Scarpia's attempts to seduce Floria Tosca by offering to spare her lover's life in return for her sexual submission to him.

The artwork aimed to demonstrate the relevance of the themes of to the narratives of real women's lives.

'We're all grown up enough not to be shocked by anything.' Each act was prefaced by a master epigram and then embellished with representative anecdotes from one or more of the six women's lives.

refers to the life experience of one of the women who had lived through the civil unrest and power play of a military coup in Latin America.

Elements from recur in the 2019 billboard series This ealier work can be interpreted, then, as the first 'working out' of themes that will prove especially important to the artist.

Virginia Woolf once wrote that the biography of anyone would be a gripping read, and the lives of these six women lend ultimate credence to that contention.