‘Pretty Boy #2’

‘Bling Boy’ and ‘Hollow Boy’

‘Pretty Boy #2’, ‘The Phoenix’ and ‘Make Love Not War’

The impetus for ‘Little Boy’ series of statuettes started after a visit to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. Viewing the information presented there I realised just how skewed my knowledge of the events of the 8th of August 1945 was. With this work(s) I wanted to question the way that we process visual information. The Little Boys seek to illicit a positive response from the viewer by hiding their dark truth behind mundane surface decoration, providing an analogy to what Slavo Žižek would call our subconscious ideological bias.