‘Maybe you could make me feel at home?’ depicts a couple relaxing in their home together, surrounded by plants, indicative of their growth, evolution, and entanglement. The collage image transfer elements in the fabric of the soft furnishings are stills taken from the BET television show ‘Twenties.’

Facial features are omitted to give the viewer an invitation to place themselves into the narrative. To emphasize the subject could be anyone, and is not particular or unique. Lack of facial features also grapples with the concept of “the gaze.” The ambiguity creates space to bring one’s own gaze, memories, ideas and feelings to the painting.

Forrester is interested in ideas of kinship and the affinities that draw people and communities together. She also plays around with mirror images, intentionally making things unclear if the image includes two or more people, or two different angles of the same person. In the paintings she often thinks about how people in relationships are drawn together - sometimes seeing parts of themself in the other, or becoming more alike and intertwined as time goes on - particularly in lesbian relationships. The figures are looking at each other as these changes unfold around and within them, meeting each other's gaze.