Death and Resurrection, Lost and Found
Willie's Abandonment, Polly's Exhumation
Oil Paint and Mixed Media on Wood Panel
2008
This painting is a rewriting of the folk ballad "Pretty Polly." In the ballad, Polly is murdered by a trickster named Willie. In my version, he doesn't quite kill her so she gets the strength up to climb out of her grave and get back to things.