The Perfect Child

Description

This is metallic gold paint and colored pencil on black paper. The drawing itself is 18" square. The frame pictured is 28x34". This item is priced as the drawing only. If you would like to purchase the frame as well, it is an additional $200. Framed artwork will be shipped with plexiglass.

This piece is about how advances in technology could lead to a "designer baby" trend. Parents can choose the baby's sex, screen for genetic disease, and even create a baby that has tissue that is compatible with an existing child, in essence creating a donor when one can't be found.

The madonna figure is a self portrait, and I used DNA spirals in the halos. I used various images in the border to symbolize the scientific processes as well as the different traits that could be engineered. I also added a barcode on the baby's arm. I had toyed around with some ideas to make it more like a commercialized ad with blurbs like, "Satisfaction NOT Guaranteed", but decided it was busy enough as it is.

Added on Nov 01, 2009