Fly Us to the Moon

Although I was forced into taking art community classes when I was in Kindergarten, I took the opportunity to use oil pastel on paper as a medium, to express my desires and imagination as a form of escape. The inability to express my anger outwards in response to the constant physical and emotional pain dealt by my mother, had forced me to look into my inner world for comfort and happiness. In this photographic image, I recreated a childhood oil pastel drawing in an attempt to revisit and understand the unconscious mind of my 6-year-old self. The building of the rocking horse, creation of my childhood friend and assembly of the cosmic elements, has enabled me to once again play like a child and turn my unfulfilled vision into reality. This investigation of the self aims to achieve closure to an incomplete chapter of my childhood.