Created in 2020.

This is a painting of a pear with a cow hide skin growing from a hand shaped tree with sparkles on it, the inside of the pear has a ladder and birds flying from it.

Vanessa had this canvas sitting waiting to be started and just decided that she wanted to paint a pear with a cow hide skin in a dim setting, Vanessa had no intention with meaning behind it, so like a viewer seeing the painting for the first time Vanessa decided what it meant for her after completing it.

Vanessa's a big fan of cow hides, using the whole cow. Vanessa has a few and to her they’re a medal, like when you make one the star of you’re home you’re showing off the sacrifices the cow made throughout it’s life, Vanessa painted (and own) holstein cow hides which is the cow that produces milk, so the idea of how many babies and people in general that cow gave it’s nutrients to and the hard work comes to mind when Vanessa wonders about a life it would have had.

Pears in my paintings also play along with the metaphor when people say something went “pear shaped”. So Vanessa personally see's it that the pear is the life/home she's building through my hand crafted career.