I recently visited Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity organisation in Kolkata. This remarkable woman dedicated over 50 years to helping the poor sick and homeless people there. She fought for the dignity of the destitute in a land foreign to her, giving the world a moral example that bridged divides of culture, class and religion. I wanted to paint her as she would have looked during her fianl years. I created the collage support of old stained cloth to be symbollic of poverty and squalor.... conditions she encountered every day.