... 2 apparently pregnant women who are almost alien in their forms: lean on top and extremely fecund below the waist. Standing on a rooftop, the women look out hopefully, as if awaiting the return — from war perhaps — of the fathers of their unborn children. The homegrown American optimism on their faces rivals that in a Norman Rockwell painting, yet the distended bellies of the women tell a different story: this is not exactly a...." http://www.thebroad.org/art/john-currin/patch-and-pearl