Broadly, without trying to get into specifics of political issues or debates, through my manchettes I looked at wealth, or a synthetic form of comfort. I represented this through the use apples. (I transformed what was a pearl neckless in the initial part of my project, into apples.) I choose the apple as it has a broad symbolism in different cultures. Most commonly would be the biblical forbidden fruit of all knowledge, a symbol of immortality and fertility in Greek mythology, also commonly known to symbolise wealth, purity, death, luxury and have erotic associations with women.  Most people in the west can afford apples in a plastic bag or in a plastic tray, in a plastic bag, as if we are trying to detach from their origin. This becomes an item, that we buy for consumption. It this wealth? No. It’s an apple. What is wealth then? Two apples or a bag of apples? A bag of apples is wealth when there is only someone has a bag of apples and everybody else only eats potatoes and dreams of having an apple. Why shouldn’t they be happy eating potatoes? Why do they desire apples? Because apples are seductive? Because they are holding the person that has the apples in their possession in a higher regard, even if they don’t like them, they might start to believe that the goodness and wealth of this world sits in that bag of apples, so they want it. What if there are no potatoes either and you have to eat dirt until you painfully die, would a potato become wealth then?  Or is wealth something that can be acquired?