Whether or not to add your Mum on Facebook is a peculiarly modern dilemma facing a generation of young party animals.
After all, no one wants their dear old Ma to see them slumped in a corner with sick on their chin or utilising an inflatable banana for lewd comic purposes.
And if Kathy Halper, a mother from America is anything to go by, parental Facebook stalking paranoia deserves to reach frightening new levels - she doesn't just look at her children’s photos, she makes embroideries of them.
The former painter takes the images she finds of her children swearing, drinking and gyrating about and makes quaint needle works out of them complete with Facebook comment-style captions.
In an artistic sense, taking such an ubiquitous aspect of modernity and rendering it in a medium we tend to associate with the past creates an interesting contrast. The overall questions it poses seems to be: ‘what would more reserved generations from history make of this modern phenomenon of relentless, hedonistic exhibitionism?’
To everyone but Halper’s kids that is, who presumably are posing the question: “Mum, why are earth are you trying so hard to embarrass me!?”
Take a look at the Friend Me collection, courtesy of Packer Schopf Gallery in Chicago – what do you think?