just like the perfect little bow

Streets lined with perfect houses and ideal families finding their comfort inside. Where I live, there is one common ideal. Everyone seems to seek out the same things: The big houses, SUV's, high paying positions and 2.5 kids in the suburbs. The people around me seek this perfection in all aspects of their lives. They feel as if these things go along with and somehow make up the ideal, "Christan Family". They interpret religion as being the perfected way of living. In a way, I've forced myself to overlook it because its everything I don't want. Until I started reading Salinger and studying art, I never really tried to look outside this perfectly tied bow that seems to surround me. As an artist, I don't strive to make everything perfect or solely find my inspiration in the common or ideal. The people all around me want everything from relationships to religion to be perfect. Personally, I don't believe perfection should always be the goal. Of course the ideal is typically seen as beautiful but one's artistic aesthetic is much more than seeking to create the ideal. For this piece, I took the idea of a simple bow that represents the way in which some feel the world should be and mixed with a tiny vagabond inspired silhouette. To me, It represents a synthesis of the appearance of perfection around me and my reckless artistic spirit.