A fragmented female figure emerges through layered accumulations of torn paper and acrylic gel, her form simultaneously constructed and obscured by the material density of the surface. Smith employs the tension between portraiture and abstraction, allowing the gestural buildup of texture to become as much a subject as the implied presence of the widow herself. The work hovers between intimacy and erasure, evoking grief and identity through a process that is as much archaeological as it is painterly.