Hardly Any Dishes Left
Mixed media, 22 x 65 cm, Private Collection
Our Dorothy is going worse naughty I am thinking of putting her in trousers and a jersey, she is more like a boy than a girl. We hardly have any dishes left the way she keeps smashing them.
Ada Lightfoot’s youngest daughter Dorothy was only two when the letters were written, and it seems from Ada’s letters that like most toddlers she was quite a handful.
In this work, I have used old fragments of blue-and-white pottery to represent all the dishes little Dorothy has broken.
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