Content Painting

The Perfect series consists of fourteen 8"x10" oil paintings of life sized little girls' shoes representing the "Perfect" woman: Silent, Absent, Content, Obedient, Compliant, Convenient, Pent, Dependant, Vacant, Ignorant, Abstinent, Innocent, Reverent, and Pleasant. It is a memorial to the fourteen women who died during The Montreal Massacre, on Dec. 6, 1989, at l'Ecole Polytechnique. Screaming, "I want women," Marc Lepine, a twenty-five year old male, shot twenty-eight, and killed fourteen women for failing to be "Perfect." Each of the fourteen paintings has been shot with a .22-calibre hunting rifle, the weapon used by Lepine, a permanent reminder of the holes left, physical and spiritual, in the wake of his hatred. These daughters, sisters, friends, were executed for daring to have a dream of their own, to be engineers. Geneviève Bergeron (1968-1989), civil engineering student. Hélène Colgan (1966-1989), mechanical engineering student. Nathalie Croteau (1966-1989), mechanical engineering student. Barbara Daigneault (1967-1989), mechanical engineering student. Anne-Marie Edward (1968-1989), chemical engineering student. Maud Haviernick (1960-1989), materials engineering student. Maryse Laganière (1964-1989), budget clerk in the École Polytechnique's finance department. Maryse Leclair (1966-1989), materials engineering student. Anne-Marie Lemay (1967-1989), mechanical engineering student. Sonia Pelletier (1961-1989), mechanical engineering student. Michèle Richard (1968-1989), materials engineering student. Annie St-Arneault (1966-1989), mechanical engineering student. Annie Turcotte (1969-1989), materials engineering student. Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz (1958-1989), nursing student.