“Cautious Observation is a scratchboard portrait of a wolf dog that I was blessed to share my life with,” relates Cristina. “He possessed an almost childlike curiosity for the world around him. One day, while testing some photographic lighting equipment outside, he approached me, curious as to what I was doing but uncertain about the new, large equipment I was working with. This was his reaction to everything he considered new. With this portrait, my goal was to capture that inner conflict between curiosity and uncertainty as if he is examining the viewer for the first time, trying to decide whether or not to approach.”