A good husband for his wife, who had worked as a labor and delivery nurse for many years, commissioned this painting. We waited for her latest little grandchild to be born in order to pose for the image. I am grateful to the commissioners who gave me leeway to do what I wanted. The square windowpanes resonate nicely with the square shapes of the nine-patch quilt, and the pastels colors come off bright and optimistic. The painting has a very personal parallel for me. My own maternal grandmother passed away four months before I was born. She is the only member of my immediate family who had artistic interest and ability. As windows often represent the impenetrable but foreseeable threshold of death, the grandmother engaged with the baby has served to remind me of the short time between my grandmothers death and my birth that our spirits may have interacted in another realm. ~Lynde Mott
