Children’s games

Children’s games

Children’s games revolves around the ideas of growing-up and losing the blissful ignorance of childhood innocence. Taking initial research reading child development in art by: Anna M.Kindler which highlighted the ways younger children behave ignorant to the reality of physics aiming to make the impossible happen. This inspired me to work with clay for the chains and then a used swing seat to ensure focus on the chains and the contradiction of the strength of chains with ceramics. I took further inspiration from the works of Mike Kelley as seen in the use of children’s toys which represent the ways a child would be able to sit on the swing as they are light enough and could play, whereas an adult would destroy it. This is further highlighted in the ways Chris Burden inspired this work through the performative aspect of sitting on the swing and destroying the work i myself constructed.

Year
04/11/2024 - 03/02/2025

These images are the final moments of the swing before the performative aspect of this project. Bellow also depicts the inspiration from Mike Kelley’s work in which children’s toys hold significant value.