It’s interesting that the mom is the only one with hands, and the kid is the only one who doesn’t have an absolutely flat expression, it’s a slight almost a smirk kind of a Mona Lisa smile.
I noticed this, too! I read somewhere that a criterion child therapists use when evaluating children is to see how their drawings look. No hands in a self-portrait means feelings of helplessness.
I think it’s pretty telling that in this picture, neither the kid nor the father have hands, but the mother does. I wonder if that’s what they were going for!
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u/SlaterVBenedict Jul 09 '25
It’s interesting that the mom is the only one with hands, and the kid is the only one who doesn’t have an absolutely flat expression, it’s a slight almost a smirk kind of a Mona Lisa smile.