At conception this was entitled ‘Enpassant’ or ‘Passing By’ but as the painting emerged, she found herself calling it The Red Turban or Soie Rouge. This was the third painting she did using her non dominant left hand after injuring her right hand and wrist. From the diary she mentions early on trying to use…

After the success of her first left handed effort, ‘Child of Vietnam’, and the continuing news of the refugee crisis in Vietnam, my mother decided to paint a larger follow up painting, The Refugees. We can read in….

Painted during the Vietnamese refugee crisis following the US pull-out form the war in Vietnam, this small canvas depicts an imagined child caught in the war.