The artist also described her mother as «a Southern belle who refused to be thrown away,» and works like «Blue Poles» and «Dirty Heel» purposefully glamorize imperfections — a pimple, an unwashed foot — that most would Photoshop out (Minter does use Photoshop in her work, but for
artistic purposes rather than airbrushing ones; she calls the program «manna from heaven»).