The Alligator Who Couldn’t Find a Friend

2025

Sculptural paper box with hand embroidered paper. 6x6x4 inches.

“The Alligator Who Couldn’t Find a Friend” was a story I wrote and told to my younger sister when we were both supposed to be settling down and going to sleep, ages about 5 and 3. I created this piece for a show about folklore and I decided this was family folklore since we both remember the story 45 years later.

Inside the drawer of the box is a tiny book with the text of the story:

Once upon a time there was an alligator who couldn’t find a friend. He looked to his left. No friend. He looked to his right. No friend. Then he looked down in his lap and there was a friend. And they lived happily ever after. The end.