Baby

1994
12 continuous paintings, oil on linen, sandblasted cedar, plywood frame, title plaques



About Baby

In Baby, which comprises twelve painted panels presented in an uninterrupted band, the poem at the bottom of each image uses a nursery rhyme style to tell the story of a woman who drops and loses her baby in a canyon due to a sudden river swell. A lamentation on the difficulties of parenthood complements a detached and light-hearted description of the event. The author and, following her, the reader are divided subject to violent, but contradictory emotions: the desire to abandon one’s child, the despair upon tragically losing him, and the detachment that enables one to engage in playful irony in facing the dramatic situation.
— Marie Perrault in "Sandra Meigs," p. 29, Musee Regional de Rimouski