Contemporary Art &
children
As an artist, I have been inspired by the children’s minds and worlds, and the way that they create and connect to art. This led me to create a project in collaboration with them, which was a unique and special experience.
practicing contemporary art with children is such extraordinary journey.
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Limitless creativity
The lost colours
An art project in collaboration with children
Statement:
Paper that had been torn and left out in the sun, the wind and the rain was given to children between two and six years old. This damaged, imperfect paper represented crisis and sadness. The children were told that this paper was sad and were asked to make it happy or to paint happiness onto it in an attempt by the artist to investigate a philosophical question: “What is happiness in the mind of a child?” It seems that they can find it easily, even in places that adults would find inhospitable. These paintings are pictures of happiness from children’s points of view, hanging in an installation of joy in an abandoned, devastated ruin. Children are happiness hunters. Out of nothing, they have vision. They can still see the colours which are lost to view as we become adult.
A little girl painted some colour on a piece of paper. When asked what it showed, she simply said “This is me.” She saw herself as happiness.
