This image was inspired by a story related to me by a fellow artist. She said that she liked my work and she used to hate abandoned places, That seemed kind of strange to me so I asked her why. She said that when she was a little girl, someone closely related to her would take her into abandoned places and do “ Not nice things to her”. I felt gut punched. That phrase ‘not nice things’ really struck me, for some reason she couldn’t call it what it was. ‘Not nice things’, f***ing unspeakable things! The Ivy leaf covering the dolls mouth is symbolic of whatever it was that kept her from saying it.