as ‘mystery containers”… Interesting idea: these are beings of another world transmitting themselves here through me. Don’t ask me why they are here.” De la Cruz has also described her works as ‘person-objects’. “They are “ashamed, angry, survive car crashes and hurricanes, sometimes suffer amputations, or even apologise for the simple fact that they are only paintings.” One of her more recent, elaborate pieces, ‘Larger than Life’, 2004 [figure 8], is painted red with a yellow border and sits awkwardly as-though forced into the room of the gallery. Its stretcher broken and bent to fit the dimensions of the room as the canvas attaches itself to the broken stretcher in a slack, ill fitting manner. These works from Angela de la Cruz question the