The world out of a child's viewpoint

For my final project, I  painted the world out of a child's viewpoint. We had to create 3 different art works. There were no given medium, so you could thus choose your own. I chose to work with spray paint and acryllics.

If you hear the word "child," the first thing that would probably pop into your head would be toys and large messes. I wanted do to something a little bit different. I wanted to ellaborate three different ways that children processes thoughts.

For my first panel, I ellaborated the way that children process difficult words. They don't just remember it. They break it up into tiny sections. Such simple sections, that it forms a lot of smaller words that they are able to comprehend.

For this panel, I chose to show how a child would, for example, comprehend the word "bloodmoon." They will never just remember it, but they will probably break it up into two sections. "Blood" and "moon." if you look at those two key words, you will easilly think about a moon that has been gashed open and bleeding. This is what I tried to visualise.

For my second pannel, I took the typical scenario of when a child is afraid. If you think about this, you'll easilly come to the thoughts of a child sitting in his/her bed at night and is too afraid to sleep, as "there is something in the closet!"

I took a bed and removed all of the blankets and pillows, as it creates an uncomfortable feeling. The bed is at the bottom of the cananvass and when you view it, it puts you in the scenario that we expect a child to survive in.

The bed is placed inside a room where the walls are right next to it and there is absolutely no doors, windows or any manner of escaping. This gives the viewer a feeling of clostraphobia. 

At the end of the long "hallway," there is a closet. The door is just slightly creeked open and has a hand that is creeping out. This helps to evolve the feeling of being terrified.

For my final pannel, I expressed the imaginetive manner of thinking of a child. They often use their over active imaginations to entertain themselves and they do so by creating fun games to play when they are bored. 

When you walk to a place and it is far, you easilly transform the grout inbetween the tiles that you walk on, into lava. If you touch the lava, you die. The point of the game is to get across as fast as possible without touching any "lava."

The black clouds that is attempting to catch the child, creates the feeling that the child has to rush to get to the end.

The child does not have a head and thus it creates an annonymous character. The point of the character, is so that the viewer can place herself or himself in the feet of the child. You can easilly place your own head onto the child's body.