I’m currently working on a commission; a memorial portrait of this precious girl, Rachel Erin Turner, whose life was taken in a tragic accident at the age of nine. This isn’t my first time working with such a heavy subject. When my brother unexpectedly died at nineteen a few years ago, my response was, of course, to memorialize him in this way. There’s something very different, though, when you didn’t know the person. What did this little girl’s voice sound like? What were he