The Enchanted Pig | acrylic and colored pencil on paper, 24” x 23”

Scene from the Romanian fairy tale The Enchanted Pig, first put to paper by Petre Ispirescu in 1872, in which a princess comes across the wind’s house, and speaks to his mother

“...At length she reached an enormous cave in the side of a mountain. This was where the Wind lived. There was a little door in the railing in front of the cave, and here the Princess knocked and begged for admission. The mother of the Wind had pity on her and took her in, that she might rest a little. Here too she was hidden away, so that the Wind might not notice her.”

— The Red Fairy Book