SERIES 'Without Madonna:Tim Draws Back'

 Without Madonna, Tim draws back is a project on imposed infant bonding  in residential settings. Mixed medias on oil paint paper  30 x 40 cm 

Tim, Jimmy 2026

Footnote*  Group care therapy (historical)   In Dutch residential institutions, mother–child bonds were deliberately broken as part of the total erasure of the child’s origin: the child of 'bad parents' should by all means  be turned into a 'decent citizen'.   Small children and toddlers were kept for long periods in baby wards to break maternal attachment and induce replacement bonding. The (lifelong) consequences for both the mothers and their children are never investigated.