This body of work deals with objects and memories of childhood discipline and obedience. The first group is a series of three, large-scaled prints which focus on objects used to discipline children. I chose to intensify their connotation by rendering them on a large scale and placing these objects centrally. I further layered textural surfaces, text, and animal images to give a serious issue a sense of sarcasm and humor. These prints focus on authority and conduct and how I dealt with each as a child and how they have continued to affect me into my adulthood.

The second set of prints are objects which belonged to my grandmother (Mammaw) and places in her old home. I have juxtaposed places with objects associated with control and authority and created relationships between the two. These prints concern gaining permission, obedience, boundaries, and limitations and my unending search for the key in life.