The nature and effects of isolation of being housebound are within ‘BEHIND THE CURTAIN (IT’S DARK)’ and it’s sister-piece ‘BEHIND THE CURTAIN (IT’S GREY)’. Both paintings have a Damar glass-like glaze on their surface suggesting the pane of a window and a reflected sky from behind. The viewer stands between the external and the internal. It’s our understanding and empathy that allows us to know the color of the interior which is determined by the condition of the skies behind. Graphic lines pulsating rhythmically, lines which can be monitored on the right machines, those lines are what keeps the woman behind.