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Flûte - I went to the market to find a flute that had the perfect pitch to tootle over the sea and attract whales. The flute maker offered one with the same pitch that he had played for orcas, so I bought it.   

I have not played my flute to the whales as I have not achieved a quality in making sounds I think would attract them, so I made this painting instead. As I was figuring out a decent composition, I envisioned the woman sitting in the boat and that was not working so I walked away and let go of the idea of painting this.  And out of nowhere the idea came to paint the woman standing, in the boat on calm water, at night. That's just how it was supposed to happen.

The woman is playing her flute making tootling sounds and a humpback has come by to sing along.

Companions - I could not read English until I was about 26. I failed English in high school and still graduated for some reason. To this day, I cannot understand newspaper articles or news headers, which is fine as I'm not interested anyways. The first book I could understand which launched my appetite for reading was 'Fahrenheit 451' by Ray Bradbury.

I painted the reader backlit as she glows and revels in the beauty of the prose marvelling her into a world of imagination. Her lap companion is obscure and can be anyone or anything you wish.