'Bird Woman' Headbox. Plexiglass box, life-cast and feathers.

Group of 'Headboxes'.

• "Penny's own head transformed with brilliant feathers… Growing animals like a strange, furry Medusa… Black masked, her own eyeless executioner". Observer Supplement, 1971.
• "They're for different experiences, to hold an idea and make it real," Penny in Observer Magazine interview, 1971.
• "Rabbits nuzzle her cheeks, a flattened squirrel crouches on top of her forehead, stray tails and paws hang down like hair. It is not, she insists, out of narcissism that she uses her own likeness, but simply convenience. "I'm available and I'm alright. I can manipulate it (my own image) quite ruthlessly, so it becomes just anonymous!"' Marcelle Bernstien,Observer Color Supplement 1971.
• "The element of allegory and analogy should penetrate all but the most insensitive imaginations." Peter Fuller - Connoisseur Magazine.