"So it's farewell sweet Caroline! Farewell Isobelle! Goodbye gentle ladies of the old order."

This picture was inspired by Johnny Clegg's song 'Orphans of the Empire' which describes the confusion and grief that the white colonists of Africa might have felt upon leaving due to the uprisings they caused. I was very strongly taken by the imagery, having felt something of the amazing pull Africa can force upon you with its beauty and alien nature. The lady in question is an African Civet rather than a more appropriate imported animal, but I felt like drawing something unusual.

"He tells you confidentially he wished he understood the indigenies. But the shadows they are lengthening and the sun it must set. Bewildered and confused, he scurries home to his bed - 'Hold me close, Africa. Fill my soul, Africa...let me in'."