My Charlotte series (based on a model of the same name), represents my aim to integrate abstracted figures into their active backgrounds. By doing so, this becomes metaphor: we are our contexts, we are of our worlds, with responsibilities to each other and the worlds we inhabit. The grounds are collages composed of papers that include original sketches from life drawing, recycled art work as well as found papers. Charcoal, graphite and acrylic paint are the other media used to create the figure.