Recollections of rural childhood.

Girlhood.
Pink gloves - a domestic icon in ‘Barbie’ colouring.
Fabric patterns - suggesting promise.
Billowing dresses (like tablecloths), patterned with cherries - a pagan symbol for fertility.
Space, wilderness, isolation.

“Go Out and Play” - hints of foreboding: the dark stormy sky, the ball with a radioactive emblem.
“Portrait of a Young Girl” - a field of webs.

“The Pink Tree”, “Sisters, Pahiatua”, and “Rural II”- youth and hope, looking towards the future while facing the past.

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