Little Dreamer aims to capture the strangeness of being a parent and child now, through a body of mixed media drawings and paintings. These works are primarily filled with images of a solitary child: playing, contemplating, and interacting only with doubled and ghost images of herself, as well as the animals and world around her. The settings are certainly somewhere but no where specific, and in ways barren or flooded. Other works feature mother and child, an iconic image steeped in tradition and laden with the weight of history and culture. These pieces show the conflict that motherhood bears out, reflecting labor as well as love.
I am broadly interested in motherhood and childhood, and the space where this relationship is both extremely isolated (private) while simultaneously scrutinized heavily by the outside world (public). This broad interest zeroes in on many contemporary anxieties. The general anxiety of parenthood and rearing another human, which has so little to do with the actual child and so much more to do with the adults themselves. The anxieties of living in a world that is often burning up or falling apart. The anxious balance of solitude versus loneliness, when we are more connected and more isolated than ever. The beauty and challenge of this work is that children are inherently resilient and joyful creatures despite the world around them.
