“Keeping Up With Appearances” examines the pressure of outward wealth and status and how a parent’s influence can affect their child’s financial status. This piece draws inspiration from someone whose parents’ excessive spending placed their family in a bad financial position and how they inherited the drive to keep up appearances. This piece pictures a woman surrounded by different signs of affluence, and they represent the facade of success constructed by parents who prioritize appearance over substance at the cost of financial stability. The ruins of an empire encircle her, showing the destruction these habits cause.