"Reject"
Oil on Canvas
45" x 36"
The creation of a child brings many expectations from parents, family, and society - expectations both of that child and of our own responses and emotions. This work explores my own experiences with my children and the limits placed on my children by my own expectations and society's need for them to conform to a pre-defined profile. This work addresses society's obsession with normality and its rejection of imperfection and challenges the right to define 'normal'. Further, it poses the moral dilemma of the expectation of perfection and challenges the perceived right to reject a child potentially outside society's arbitrary limits.
