I just remember seeing it beside my painting in the library of our college as a part of the student show, and telling my grandma about you and our class... I never knew it was encaustic, I always loved the effect on the gessoboard surface, the thick layered strokes and also the transparency of color are like storm clouds on Jupiter, a nude and portrait all within a still-life study. I was so proud to have my little seashell painting hang beside it, I can still see it in my mind there together along the wall. <3