‘Complacent in her captivity’

“Emily’’ (mixed media), by Joe Caruso, in Galatea Fine Art’s (Boston) online gallery.

This text runs with it:

“She stares out of a prison of an unknown making, complacent in her captivity. The woman's image in this construction seems unaware that time is passing. Once she was young and the world was open. Now she guards hidden memories.’’

Mr. Caruso lives in the Charlestown section of Boston, though his studio is in South Boston. Charlestown is the oldest part of Boston, having been originally laid out in 1629.

See:

joe-caruso-jwkc.squarespace.com

And:

galateafineart.com

1629 site of the "Great House" of Puritan leader and the Massachusetts Bay Colony’s leading founder, John Winthrop (1587-1649) in City Square, Charlestown, uncovered during the Big Dig

The Bunker Hill Monument and William Prescott Statue, in Charlestown. Prescott ( 1726 - 1795) was an American colonel in the Revolutionary War who commanded the Patriot forces in the Battle of Bunker Hill. Prescott is known for his order to his soldiers, "Do not fire until you see the whites of their (the English) eyes".