Oh! My Dog! I Miss You. Anja Altenburg Laursen I find straight lines and

I find straight lines and structure confining

Influenced by the fairy tales and books of her youth

Emily Slade (aka Mushroomish) is a self taught

Women became the metaphor for mother nature as wild and sexual thing exploited and explored in my work

Oil on cradled panel

Oh! My Dog! I Miss You. Anja Altenburg Laursen I find straight lines andDetails About Oil on panel 11 x 14 in. 2017 This piece is a bit of an homage to Yoshitaro Nara's sad mad mean girls. When I saw his exhibit at Asia Society in NYC some years ago, I was struck by the title of one piece, "Oh! My God! I Miss You." It's subject appears in my own painting here as a little button pin. This summer we almost lost our dog to a coyote attack. My daughter was instrumental in saving his life. This is the inspiration for this