Mr Porter
For MR PORTER’s journal I illustrated a piece that asks whether adults can repair a strained relationship with their parents. The advice from the therapists in the article is honest: acceptance matters more than trying to change them, and some relationships only work with distance and clear boundaries.
I turned that into a playground seesaw. A man sits at one end in the foreground, and his parents are at the other end, small and high in the air, far from him. A seesaw needs two people to work and a balance between them, and here the distance is the whole subject. The warm light of a late sunset keeps it gentle.
