Used in anti-epileptic drugs, Sodium Valproate has shown to have a devastating effect on the developing fetus causing congenital malformations in 10% of exposed babies and neurological disorders in 40% of exposed babies. Despite awareness of the abnormalities the regulators decided in 1973 that warning women of birth defects "could give rise to fruitless anxiety" and although prescribers were given information on data sheets it was decided that warnings would not be included in or on medicine packaging "so the that there would be no danger of patients seeing it". It was not until 2019 did Medsafe NZ released an alert that Sodium Valproate must not be prescribed to women of childbearing age.

For nearly four decades, the majority of women were not informed of the risks to unborn babies by medical professionals and tens of thousands of babies have been needlessly affected worldwide including the artist’s son.

Influenced by new realism and abstract expressionism, pages of media publications and textbooks related to the medical profession have been used as a foundation of the work to tear back into, slowly exposing truth that has been hidden for decades. The process of creating the works has been a cathartic process, an emotional release of a mother coming to terms with the betrayal of those responsible for needless harm inflicted on her son.