Aleah Angeles is the latest talent in rising batch of young painters from the Philippines. Exemplifying a sound technique in realist painting and a fertile, feminine imagination, her works are lyrical compositions with a warm romantic flair. Inspired by the figures of young girls, which the artist herself relates to and draws from life based on her own photographs; her paintings often show them in recumbent positions, half caught in dreams and fantasy. Lazy Daisy (Lot 2562) portrays Angeles' alter-ego, falling asleep under a tree with her half-read book draped over her face. Trapped in the pages of her fairytale or fantasy novella, the heroine in her slumber is sweetly unaware of the looming dream-forest behind her, as though conjured directly from her unfinished tale. With her ruffled skirt, knee-socks slipping down her legs, and outflung hand, Lazy Daisy is an archetypal rendition of uncorrupted girlish innocence.