This painting depicts a vulnerable female figure. The way the woman is holding her pet captive makes her seem slightly sadistic. Dogs, especially small ones, fascinate the artist. This painting explores how these domesticated, mutated wolves live among us—and somehow dictate our lives to a great degree. Malaska’s compositions frequently depict women who are unafraid of displaying their emotions, desires and potential.

Speaking of the artist's work, Ashley Stull Meyers says: "Aspiring to the legacies of artists Jay DeFeo and Carolee Schneemann, Malaska’s considerations of female bodies are produced as wholly other—as occupying a space that is of their own supposed imagination and development. The figures, casually revealed more than boldly exposed, generate a surface that dimensionally supports a plane of the unreal. Their bodies are containers for not merely a biological specificity, but a defiant autonomy and nonchalant insistence on their additional value. Their mental states—aspirations, desires and prideful confidences—are evidenced in the abundance of contemporary iconography Malaska expertly positions.”