‘Perfect Parents’, 2014

Lockets express what it means to be human in absolutely distinct terms. They celebrate what it means to love and to honor. They mark what it means to remember and to mourn. In this way,  lockets and charms offer us a window to our past.  

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Perfect Parents is a project questioning the possible existence of an arrangement described by the phrase ¨Perfect Parents¨.

The form of a pendant necklace was chosen because it implies a deep connection and personal relationship that a person has with their family. You hold the dearest and the most precious (or the most scariest?) near your heart, in a pendant or a locket.

As children, we tend to be strongly assured that our parents are in fact perfect. This premise dissipates with time, as we grow up and realize that this kind of perfection is not possible nor even realistic to expect often leaving a trauma or unresolved issues lingering into one’s adulthood.

This work playfully deals with the only possible way a relationship can be quidem perfect. One is blinded (and knowingly chooses to be ‘blind’) and the other cannot speak and thus the possibility of communication of any kind is annulled and in this way so is the possibility to hurt the other thus making the relationship ¨ perfect ¨.