For the past few years Gay Ann has been tinkering with angels who intrigue her because they are often idealized forms of human figures, possibly real but mostly imaginary. With Summer's Night Angel she tried to suggest an angel seeming to rise amidst clusters of flowers, an idealized figure as a fleeting vision, a glimpse, a figment of the imagination. A dream-like creature there one moment, vanished the next, and like a dream not completely defined, orderly or realistic in presentation.

The word Gay Ann has heard most often in association with Summer's Night Angel is "serene." The serenity came as Gay Ann stitched her. The time she worked on her was marked by a series of health problems for the people Gay Ann cares about. Through this period when awful, frightening news abounded, she worked on Summer's Night Angel and lost herself in the rhythmic repetitions of her elements, and so came to look on her as Gay Ann's bit of peace and relief from worry. She thinks this is what people see when they look at her, her own little escape into a serene world, even if, like Summer's Night Angel, the serenity is but a momentary, fleeting vision.