Miriam Beerman's work is rooted in abstract expressionism, and reflects her personal and political heritage. She has said 'I have spent most of my life creating images that are responses to the brutality of our time. I am reminded constantly of the world's injustice. It weighs upon my mind and body. … Human or animal forms are usually somewhere in my work. They are the angels and demons of an inner perception and they re-enact the past as well as presage the future'. The 'Faces' series brings together human and animals. This print from the series shows three skulls, two obviously human, one ambiguous. The connotations are of biblical subject matter (Golgotha) and of atrocities such as the Holocaust (Beerman is Jewish) and the genocide in Rwanda. They are inspired by a passage from Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke.