Perfect Boys and Perfect Girls
1999 Woodcut
12"x24"
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Copyright © Maria Arango, 1999
Block: Birch Plywood
Ink: Red/black oil based
Paper: Daniel Smith Printmaking
Image: Inspired by the emphasis on perfect bodies that permeates television
today. The vessel implies two things, one is that the search for perfection in
body dates back to the Greek era, and two, that same search for perfection traps
us and confines us.
