The photograph, taken in the financial district of New York City, utilizes the stereotype of the businessman and the mother to consider the degree to which these roles are natural, or constructed by the culture that circumscribes them. 200 ties are wrapped around the businessman’s head. The tie, an artifice of power, swaddles and swells the head, rendering it a pregnant belly. The mother lays her hand on the belly to soothe and comfort. Like in the Pietà, a mother holds an adult male in surrender.