Good Morning, Armandy

The greeting form of the title points to a paired portrait — the protagonist addressing a named companion, almost certainly an animal. Across Ando's output, recurring named characters include hares, owls, and foxes; Armandy reads as one of these invented familiars, with the named address giving the encounter the cadence of a children's book. Compositionally the print likely shows the girl and the animal in close proximity within a sparsely furnished room or vignetted ground, the two figures equal in scale and visual weight in the manner of Edwardian illustration. The intaglio plate would render both characters in fine etched line, with aquatint establishing a soft tonal background; chine collé bonds a thin sheet of Japanese paper into the support during printing, often used here to halo the figures or to set the floor or wall apart. Hand coloring picks out ribbons, eyes, and small surrounding objects. The print belongs to the strand of Ando's work in which named animal familiars appear alongside the recurring child protagonist.