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

Piggy and Porky. Upon arrival at home, Piggy, refusing to be constrained by the bounds of captivity took flight, their love was not meant to be…

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”