Shhh, I'm on the Phone!: A Junior Narrative Diptych by Nicholas Wilson (2011)

As the busy business woman and, more importantly, Mother is occupied by her conversation on the phone, she does take the time to turn around to realize that her daughter is taking the toy keys. These toy keys are not simply plastic keys. They represent her key to freedom, her ability to escape, and her Mother's irreversible neglect. Due to the Mom's inability to prevent her daughter from escaping, she later faces her point of no return. After receiving a call about her daughter in a car crash, she rushes over the scene of the accident. When she arrives, she finds out that it is too late. Her daughter was gone.

My first image portrays the Mother's preoccupation and neglect. She purposely has her back faced to her daughter to illustrate that her conversation on the phone is of more importance than her daughter. She is also in the motion of getting out of the car, which symbolizes her abandoning of her daughter as well as the lack in given attention. The second picture depicts the mother hovering over her daughter and crying. This represents her point of no return because it is now too late to go back and give her daughter the attention she deserved. At that time, she finally gives her daughter the attention she so desperately needed, but once again, it's too late.