This is my Salome:
Salome dances naked for her stepfather Herod and, prompted by her mother, demands the head of John the Baptist in payment.
Is she an innocent, an Ophelia figure caught up in the machinations of the court?
Or is she the manipulator, the femme fatale, the embodiment of female sexual power?
Even the application of the paint is ambiguous. Nothing is quite certain. There are five Salome figures. There is Herodias, her mother, and Herod, the cipher King, emasculated by his own lust.
And ultimately the blood is on Herod’s hands.
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