In her densely colored drawings, Nellie Mae Rowe often depicted plants, animals, and human figures fantastically intertwined with abstract shapes and quilt-like patterns. Her exuberant imagery offers a view into a personal pictorial world. In this drawing, Rowe conflated fantasy with lived experience, transforming a mundane visit to the podiatrist—a medical specialist of the foot, ankle, and lower leg—into an outlandish and enchanting scene populated by birds, butterflies, and people.