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Artist Rebecca Szeto whittles and paints portraits of different women on the handles of used paintbrushes that are fit for the bin. And we, as you will have gathered by now, adore creative people who can turn rubbish into treasure. The case in hand here, in addition, has an extra special depth to it as Szeto manages to reflect the unique character of each brush, underlining the individuality of each one in the process. These portraits feature female subjects from famous historical paintings, but unlike the pictures on the previous pages, which are named, we have decided not to name these ladies. We do so as a symbolic gesture towards women throughout the history of art: they could appear as subjects in a painting but as artists they were condemned to obscurity.