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The opus with princesses within its analogy explores an existential idea that revolves around artists' struggles, torn apart between their creative ambitions and the repressive limitations of society.
Princesses, predetermined by their royal status, also restrain from their own desires and ambitions in the name of the socially conditioned daily protocols.
The title, taken from grammar is used because its undefined mode allows only an intention, without any determined verb tense, number or person.


"...they do not express any sentiments or desires, but frozen, acquire their existence by controlling their libidinal energies within the framed paintings...

...the triptych objects, resembling vanity mirrors, allow an extension of the metaphor about the unidentification of the being. As if the princesses repeatedly want to confirm their own figurative existence by its reappearing - the reflection in the mirror."

                     Suzana Milevska-curator