At the end of dissertation I began to consider this piece I had made during the whole process. I had debated about whether or not to add to its shading, or whether the figure should have pajamas on like I normally do when sleeping.

However, that went against the messaging of the piece. Which is that Serena forces me back into that fetal sense of belonging. Where there was warmth in the womb, and a sense of safety in a world that was about to change. My body in its raw, natural disabled form, invisibly so, and even still she responds to that invisibility, the only hint being the lack of feeling in my legs and feet on one side causing them to disappear. The ripples in the image are that of the changing ways in which we interact in the waking world, changes that still occur in echoes long after we have gone to bed for the night. In this sense this piece does illustrate a sense of becoming-with for service dog team.