My work reflects on the gendered roles of women and often hints at the domestic restraints of my past. Currently I have been focusing on Companion Species, exploring complex relations of dependency and interdependence. The entangled histories of interspecies relationships provide many possibilities for my work, most importantly the flattening of hierarchies between species. These ideas expand on the concept of decentering in an anthropocentric world and open us up to the responsive capacity of all life on earth. Focusing on my own four-legged companions, I understand that humans are also changed and formed through these relationships. When my beloved companion Bella passed away, I reflected on our last moments together. These were profound. They were filled with reciprocal perception and feeling. The aim of this body of work is to communicate the dual impact relationships like this leave on both companions’ whatever species they might be. The sculptures have been created in two parts, so that when the animal is lifted off its base there remains a memory in the indentation where it lay, representing interspecies connectivity as well as the very personal process of loss.