There is clear intent in this work to provoke the viewer and stimulate their imagination. The bruised leg and a smiling baby laying on a yellow quilt, in "Lilly and Leg" makes us recoil at the grotesqueness of associating a deformed limb with the innocent and unblemished child and yet the infectiousness of the baby's smile counter balances our horror and piques our interest.

As we continue to look at the image we see the repeating yellow in the highly coloured bruise placed as a still life on the matching yellow fabric. The child, perfect and flawless counters the damaged leg and through the deliberate composition the baby becomes a visual extension of the leg causing the eye to travel around the image and bringing a harmony to such apparent dissonance.

It is Sarah's intention to throw us off balance, to provoke ambivalent and contradictory responses, but her ultimate desire is to draw us into her work and through its very dissonance bring the elements together to create a final resolution.

As Cara Phillips writes in her critique of Sarah's work on 1000 Words, "Sarah Small's work taps into the human mind's capacity to be provoked by visual language. By creating a world...in which a multiple number of realities are possible, her work is able to stimulate the imagination in the manner of poetry."

This print has been kindly donated by Sarah and the net proceeds of the sale of the print will go in support of 1000 Words.

The printing has been donated by Dogleaf Studios in California: