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ART / DESIGN / PHOTOGRAPHY / ABOUT / EXHIBITIONS / NEWS / SHOP / CONTACT / BLOG Indian Standard Time An Ideal Boy Visit Palestine Pakistan Floods Boat People No Bill 94 Environmental Warnings
2010. An Ideal Boy - Good Habits. Print, 11 in x 17 in. /// BUY An Ideal Boy - Good Habits is an ironic take on an educational chart used throughout India. The original chart was part of a popular series of instructional illustrations for children that served as a guide to ‘correct’ social behaviour. My take on the chart was initially produced as a poster and later as individual paintings. This revision uses irony to draw attention to the normative heterosexual agenda of the original and playfully suggests a re-education: one can be gay and be “An Ideal Boy” at the same time. Borrowing the hand-painted, mis-registered aesthetic quality of the original version, my posters and paintings are a double-take that suggest the unexpected. © 2012 Meera Sethi Creative. |
