Enrolment Number – 04246209

 “Pictures of children are at once the most common, the most sacred, and the most controversial images of our time.  They guard the cherished ideal of childhood innocence, yet they contain within them the potential to undo that ideal.  No subject seems cuter or more sentimental, and we take none more for granted.  Yet pictures of children have proved dangerously difficult to understand or control.” Ann Higonnet Pictures of innocence

My subject area attempts to encompass trauma and its emotional, psychological and physical effect on its victims, observers and those influenced.  In my opinion, we gain experience through direct and indirect involvement.  Therefore, to be recipients’ observers or receptacles of hearsay, will engender and influence our psychological, emotional and practical behaviour.  So, it could be said that conceptualization from an artists’ perspective is promoted by the range of experiences they’ve been exposed to, either positive or negative.

My aim is to create a space that takes the viewer on a journey. the use of emotive pieces of childhood memorabilia/children’s’ clothing in mixed media to give a sense of unease and slight discomfort to the viewer, in today’s world childhood objects are not seen as the innocence of childhood but corrupted artefacts of a stolen childhood.  Ceramic pieces shall be used to denote a sense of fragility.   The use of light and the shadows to portray a sense of movement, creating an installation with subversive context – shifting the boundaries and perceptions of the ‘adult’ viewer, forcing them to feel uncomfortable. The juxtaposition of the real and unreal

I believe that Children feel small when in an uncomfortable adult space, and I want to reverse this feeling in my installation, by creating a small ‘intimate’ space, forcing the viewer to feel as if they have penetrated a Childs’ space.   this voyeurism  involving the viewer into my theme of ‘sensation’ and ‘experience

 The use of film/video of shadows will become my vehicle to represent an anonymous presence.