Further developing my character, I began work on her dress, deciding to go with my previous idea of having a dress made out of plants and leaves. I wanted the dress to look alive and flourishing, to act as a counterbalance to the lifeless, dead-looking arms of Charity. To do this, at the top of the dress, I decided to give her some boughs of grapes, which are modelled as part of her dress, but appear to be growing from her shoulders.
I also worked on her hair, again wanting to make it look more alive than the rest of her body, as though her arms, which are usually depicted as the instrument by which charity is given, (helping someone up, giving away food, money, clothes, lending a hand, etc.) are her sacrifice through charity.
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