Painting people has been a new focus of interest for Mauritzson, and she imbues her portraiture with her unique vocabulary that references nature and home. In addition, she includes associations to time which emerge through the compositions or other painted symbols. A sense of past-present narratives is evident in the painting, Carousel of Time which features two women, almost identical, who greet the viewer from a garden. The details of the women and the flowers in the foreground of this painting are clearly defined while the background seemingly disappears into an early morning fog. The clothes the women wear are an unusual mix of current styles, such as sneakers and cow-patterned clogs, paired together with folk costumes and ruffled collars that harken to medieval dress. While time is evident through the eclectic combination of clothes the women wear, a central focal point of the painting is the watermelon; its weight can almost be felt by the viewer. The watermelon alludes to summer but can also be interpreted as a metaphor for cycles of growth or notions of fertility; the garden the two women stand in is the abundance of life.