“LOSING THE WHIMSY”
Inquiry-based project about visually exploring the pressure of growing up in chronological order. This project explores my departure from childhood innocence to adulthood stress, and finally needing to leave my family behind.
Throughout this project I use different surfaces that contribute to the narrative of stress caused by growing up, such as printed out university application forms, brochures, and resumes, while including surfaces from my childhood to represent innocence.
Ball Pit
Slowly understanding the pressures of growing up. Unlike the shark, It is no longer just a looming fear at the back of my mind, but instead slowly drowning me.
The “whimsy” is being taken.
3D Paper/Cardboard Model
Two Rooms?
Two cardboard rooms? The room on the right is ridden of the homework texture, I am bored in bed and seated on the floor, reading and pondering. A child can be bored, that’s honestly one of the things I appreciate now looking back at childhood.
The room on the left is completely engrossed in “homework”. I am seen leaving for university while the homework texture creeps into the childhood room.
I have lost the “whimsy” completely.
Homework Shark
This piece shows my perspective on how grades and self imposed value slowly creeps up onto you. This is a visual manifestation of the stress that can be caused by homework at an early age.
Early stages of “losing the whimsy”.
aka. the whimsical part of being a child.
Just Homework
Remnants of my childhood are in the back while I am studying. Everybody’s going to have to deal with this eventually.
The “whimsy” is lost.
Extras