‘She had fingers like lead, she could run them under boiling water. She wore the longest acrylics I’d ever seen. I wanted to be just like her. I hope I can be to you what she was to me’, 2023

Anya Paintsil,‘She had fingers like lead, she could run them under boiling water. She wore the longest acrylics I’d ever seen. I wanted to be just like her. I hope I can be to you what she was to me’, 2023.

Acrylic yarn, wool, synthetic hair, alpaca, cotton, human hair, plastic beads, earrings on hessian, 21 5/8 x 22 1/2 in.