To Dr. Jennifer Ayala (Hitchcock)

I started this drawing in August 2007 while at a conference session on Nonviolent Communication (R) and worked on it off and on until December 2007. It's done with colored pencils. In September, I believe, we heard that Jennifer Ayala (Hitchcock) who had received her Ph.D. in April 2007 from the PIC program at Binghamton University, had died. She used a wheelchair and was an advocate for people with disabilities. She was in her early 30's. She had a monkey as a helper, a Capuchin I believe. Again, I drew this, mostly disconnected from cognition, being mostly in a state of disoriented affect, although I am conscious of deliberately added elements alluding to wheels. The face at the lower left seems indicative of a monkey's face but it was not intentional. Also, Jennifer had long blond hair, the representation of which in the drawing was also not intentional. That's the beauty of almost direct communication with the unconscious.