WHY DO YOU CRY?

30 x 42cm

Pencil on translucent paper

Children experience emotion without restraint and unapologetically express them. The viewer is urged to evaluate the simplicity of their emotions as a child compared to the present through overlapping portraits of the boy. Alongside the translucency of paper and blurred background, these elements represent the multifaceted layers of emotion and partial clarity within what we feel. This relates to the amorphous nature of emotions and how it conflicts us.