Mirror Mirror/the Monster in Your Bedroom

Hand embroidery
40 x 30cm

This piece is a reflection on contemporary parenting and the dangers that lurk in letting children go online far too early. 

Around 2012 there was a shocking trend of tween girls flocking to Google, YouTube and various social media to ask the ‘wisdom’ of the World Wide Web “Am I pretty”.

With responses ranging from kind and supportive to downright predatory and abusive, it very much highlighted the dangers that children are exposed too when left alone with devices that connect them to total strangers.

Despite the extensive writing of Jonathan Haidt et al on the subject and an increasing awareness of the mental health crisis of our young ones, we haven’t remotely begun to understand on an individual or societal level just how damaging this technology is for a developing mind. 

Incidentally, what followed this trend was a 5000% increase in girls and young women being diagnosed with gender dysphoria (ie profound discomfort with their biological sex) and wishing to transition. Though I’m sure that is all pure coincidence…

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