Daisy?

Hideki told me Poodle in a Doodle was an homage to his second wife’s drowned pet poodle, Daisy. Others have speculated that it is a therapeutic piece for Hideki, helping him cope with the trauma of having found Daisy in the swimming pool, or, alternatively and more controversially, an expression of his guilt over having drowned Daisy himself for destroying his work in progress, as he reportedly entered his work studio to find her lying asleep on the floor amidst a pile of shredded latex. Regardless of its origins, Poodle in a Doodle was hailed as marking the nadir of Hideki’s artistic and professional career.