Lost Rituals of Childhood

09/08/2015 Combining imagery from the domains of mythology, antiquated science, and contemporary popular culture, this body of work intentionally conflates the personal with the cosmic, the past with the present, to suggest that our ideas about identity and our place in the cosmos are provisional at best.

The children in these paintings are depicted in costumes or in moments of “play,” but are done so in a way that heightens the performative and ritualistic aspects of their behavior.  Bravery, uncertainty, wariness and defiance are psychological states I’m interested in exploring. I mean for this collage of  images to function as a sort of Rorschach that reveals patterns of meaning to the individual viewer.