Phyllis Frazier

“When we encounter an animal, wild, it is the gaze we remember — the expression of the face which arrests us — locks our own memory to the moment and fixes it in time, and somehow beyond it. We may have impressions, sensations of the place, the light, the day, but it is the animal itself which transcends and enters our spirit. Such is the gift the tiger brings to our imagination, and it is this feeling which I have tried to express.”