Mondays Child explores the double bind theory in the context of mother and child - a dynamic in which two conflicting messages create psychological dependency. The younger figure, naked and vulnerable, is scolded for the very desires she has been taught to embrace: to be beautiful, attractive, and sought after.
The painting draws on the myth of Icarus, whose downfall came from ignoring his father's counsel, a story of beautiful ambition undone by those closest to us. At the centre of the composition, three legs form the triskelion, an ancient symbol of interlocking strengths and relationships, anchoring the double bind at the heart of the work.

The "tainted love" of the work operates on two levels: the forbidden desire between the daughter and her lover, and the complex bond between mother and daughter. In trying to protect her child, the mother also causes harm, her love coloured by jealousy and possession, nurture and damage bound inseparably together.