EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE AGAIN

A series of photographs depicting a group of children in an unscripted, mysterious environment, standing in defiance of what a “good” child is supposed to look like—instead of well-scrubbed and properly dressed they are gestural, bold, raw, confident, and heartbreakingly beautiful. Painted and feral, part Lord of the Flies’ crash survivors and Peter Pan’s Lost Boys, these wild creatures inhabit their own world—a place where tenderness and aggression, chaos and hierarchical order coexist without confusion. It’s a savage vista, without technology or the dominating presence of adults.

Alongside the photographs, several sculptural assemblages use found weapons constructed by very young children to speak about notions of instinct, origin, and the desire to collect and categorize in an effort to make sense of our place in history. Fashioned by anonymous hands, the primitive weapons share the common material language of sticks, wood chips, bamboo, and duct tape. Given the age of their makers, they are complicated objects of beauty and primal contrast between innocence and violence.

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