Inktober day 8: Remembering the Sonoma fires.
This was a request from a dear friend who lost her home in Santa Rosa, California during the Tubbs fire one year ago. For many people, including my friend, an orphaned hearth and chimney stack was all that remained of their homes. For some, it is all that still remains.
The cat and the hen are symbolic for me, as they represent all the comforts of home. They wait on the hearth, surrounded by the regrowth of flowers and grass, as a reminder of what has been lost and what can be regained.













