Not Good Enough
“Not Good Enough” is a piece I created to confront a painful truth about our society how our obsession with beauty, perfection, and flawless appearances has reshaped even the most natural parts of life. This artwork is my reflection on how our perception of “what looks good” pressures industries to modify, filter, and chemically alter the world we consume. In this case, something as simple and sacred as an apple.
The green grid in the painting represents a marketplace a system, a structure where choices are made quickly, almost mechanically. The two fingers entering the frame from the top and bottom symbolize us, the consumers, constantly selecting, rejecting, judging with a single gesture. With one tap, we decide what deserves to be bought, what deserves to be thrown away.
Inside the grid, two apples appear:
- One perfectly round, shiny, spotless.
- One naturally imperfect, marked, irregular.
The perfect apple is placed near the shopping symbol the one destined to be chosen, admired, and purchased simply because it “looks good.” The imperfect apple, even though just as real, just as nutritious, just as alive, is pushed toward the trash.
I included the trash symbol intentionally, because that is the brutal path we’ve created, an entire system built on discarding anything that doesn’t meet our artificial standards.
This artwork isn’t just about apples.It is about us. It is about how we treat beauty, nature, each other, and ourselves.
Our obsession with perfection has consequences:
chemicals on our food, pressure on industries, exploitation of nature, and even the loss of our own authenticity. We forget that imperfection is natural. It is human. It is life.
“Not Good Enough” questions what we value and why. It reflects the way we have been trained to see beauty not with our hearts, but with our fears of judgment. And it invites us to ask ourselves: How many things have we rejected simply because they didn’t look perfect? How many things were real, good, alive and we never gave them a chance?
This painting is my call for awareness, compassion, and a softer gaze toward the world. A reminder that perfection is not truth perfection is marketing. And reality, in all its flaws, is where meaning lives.
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 80X80 cm