8 × 10 inches. oil paint, oil pencil on panel

Her name was “Cockette” and she was my first pet, one morning I found her laying on the bottom of her cage, I thought she was asleep….

The pink that permeates this work speaks to the colour of bauxite and one of my earliest childhood memories. The encaustic overlay on the figures dresses serves to differentiate them from the background while maintaining the hollow nature of the sense of being “other”