She is deeply engaged with process as well as narrative and her paintings describe a particular fantasy world. With the history of painting at her brush’s tip, from Poussin to Persian miniatures, she combines landscape and portrait (and sometimes science fiction) with a style that is both formal and outsider. Tiny figures repeat, reappear, dominate, fold, attack, cry, capture one-another, and hold each other. They are leaders and followers, soldiers, babies, and wrestlers. All of Larissa’s characters are men. She explores masculinity (and therefore, in a way, femininity) in an untraditional way ? extracting stereotypes and creating allegories to define their roles. Women aren’t usually present in the paintings, but as a woman, Larissa’s presence as the creator is keenly felt ? she controls her characters’ bodies and actions, but also let’s them lead the way though the landscape.