here’s a couple of prints I’ve been playing with this evening. Its one movement of my youngest boy.
I wanted orange and yellow to suggest the heat and vibrancy of their lives. Unexpectedly the image looks like a boy soldier in the desert. He looks like he’s holding a gun in this image because in the original photo he is holding a long stick (for bashing the ground as he walks along).
This is part of what is interesting me – putting the small boy figures into spaces and finding out what different manifestations they take on. So to bring out the politics of childhood – I mean, for example; in this country: children out on their own and what this means depending on how they are perceived, neglected/independent/vulnerable; and for example, as these prints suggest, in another country, children forced into combat.
it’d be great to have comments on this; on what I’m saying or the prints themsevles.
