Duane Hanson concentrated on the naked fact of the subject, an astonishingly persuasive counterfeit of another human being as a fully realised physical presence.  When describing this sculpture Duane Hanson said: ‘I like the physical burdens this woman carries.  She is weighted down by all of her shopping bags and purchases, and she has become almost a bag herself.  She carries physical burdens – the burdens of life, of everyday living.  But initially, it’s quite a funny sculpture’.