If you have spent more than 10 seconds looking through my work, you will probably have seen dots. Lots and lots of dots. Dots make me feel safe, and if I could explain that I would but I can’t. It’s a personal issue, maybe from a past life. So it made a lot of sense to me when Walter Tevis from The Queen’s Gambit says:

“It's an entire world of just 64 squares. I feel safe in it. I can control it; I can dominate it. And it's predictable. So, if I get hurt, I only have myself to blame.”

To be honest, this piece makes me uncomfortable. Yes, there are dominos with lots of dots, There’s a grid pattern with squares and dots. And the body is surrounded by dots, so I really ought to like it. But there’s just something about the butterfly wing ears and the cowrie shell mouth that weird me out and I don’t know why. Feels like it ought to have fangs.

I think there’s value to stepping out of your comfort zone a bit every so often, but people really seem to respond to this piece, so maybe I’m on to something. Or maybe I just need a good night’s sleep.