Innocence and Sadness
This piece is my modern reinterpretation of Pandora’s Box. It exposing the corrupting forces that intrude upon childhood.
A summer day gone wrong . . . balloons escape a child’s grip . . . exploding in chaotic bursts of pop culture detritus, violence, consumerism, and overexposure and heavy saturation of harmful societal influences.
Silhouetted children gawk at the exploding balloons, unaware of the looming consequences tethered to their strings. Among them, a clown weeps feeling loss of innocence, confusion, and the crushing weight of premature awareness. Scattered across the ground are fragments of media and advertising, suggestingthat even the foundation of play and imaginationhas been infiltrated.
I hope the work challenges viewers to examine what we allow to shape the minds of youth and to protect children from the commercial interests that seek to exploit them.
This piece is my modern reinterpretation of Pandora’s Box. It exposing the corrupting forces that intrude upon childhood.
A summer day gone wrong . . . balloons escape a child’s grip . . . exploding in chaotic bursts of pop culture detritus, violence, consumerism, and overexposure and heavy saturation of harmful societal influences.
Silhouetted children gawk at the exploding balloons, unaware of the looming consequences tethered to their strings. Among them, a clown weeps feeling loss of innocence, confusion, and the crushing weight of premature awareness. Scattered across the ground are fragments of media and advertising, suggestingthat even the foundation of play and imaginationhas been infiltrated.
I hope the work challenges viewers to examine what we allow to shape the minds of youth and to protect children from the commercial interests that seek to exploit them.
This piece is my modern reinterpretation of Pandora’s Box. It exposing the corrupting forces that intrude upon childhood.
A summer day gone wrong . . . balloons escape a child’s grip . . . exploding in chaotic bursts of pop culture detritus, violence, consumerism, and overexposure and heavy saturation of harmful societal influences.
Silhouetted children gawk at the exploding balloons, unaware of the looming consequences tethered to their strings. Among them, a clown weeps feeling loss of innocence, confusion, and the crushing weight of premature awareness. Scattered across the ground are fragments of media and advertising, suggestingthat even the foundation of play and imaginationhas been infiltrated.
I hope the work challenges viewers to examine what we allow to shape the minds of youth and to protect children from the commercial interests that seek to exploit them.