The materials, colors, and surfaces used in these creations are more significant to me than the depicted imagery. In my life as a painter I hated pink; I hated glitter, rhinestones and beads. Yet, I loved them as a little girl. Society tells girls to fancy these items, thus many females associate with them during very formative years.  Later in life females are convinced to look down on these items as cheap, valueless, superficial and unimportant. Consequently, as adults we relegate them to young girls and devalue them in the process. Young boys are taught to associate with things that have room to grow in societal value; for example, tools, trucks and sports. As these seemingly masculine things are consistently valued, boys’ interests can accumulate momentum as they mature. For girls, their lives are full of interruptions, breaks, and redirections. They must often abandon and start over in order to feel they are doing something valuable. For all the above mentioned reasons, I selected all the things that I loved as a girl and hated as an adult and made artwork using glitter, beads, rhinestones and pink. My personal challenge was to elevate that status of said materials in an attempt to understand my emotional and mental aversion towards them. The perceptual shift was important for me because my feelings about these materials truly changed and with it the way I considered others and their creations.