When religious motifs are borrowed and placed in a secular context, they cease to signify religious ideas and instead acquire new meaning. They signify something borrowed; instead of being a visual translation of a religious narrative, they represent other images or ‘represent representation’. 

Alena Alexandrova, Breaking Resemblance

The presence of (dis)arranged cloths in artworks has a long history of connoting pictorial representation itself.

Gen Doy, Drapery