This piece was inspired by my love of Art Deco: simple shaopes, beautiful and often repeated stylized flowers and beautiful Victorian women. The portrait of the young woman in white satin was appropriated from the internet, the beautiful young blond inspired by our daughter Mary Catherine and the full figure inspired by my beautiful wife Linda. That figure was inspired by “Flappers” off the 1920’s - young western women who smoked cigarettes, wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz and flaunted their disdain for acceptable behavior. Linda is extremely kind and loving with a special, beautiful southern style, great love for all, especially animals and replete with a beautiful southern accent. When she was a student at “Ole Miss” her sorority sisters referred to her a “The clean Hippie.” When I met her she dressed beautifully and a little eccentrically, on occasion, she would - like her mother wear a mink stole. Later, she told me that neither she nor her mother knew this has once been a live animal.