In my last drawing i combine a portrait of Polar Bear as a symbol of melting icecaps, climate change and struggling species to survive. And 3 funny animals, that accompany or protect the Bear. These 3 characters are inspired and based on children's drawings form Windroos school in Brussels, Belgium.
Jojpa, Konypoeki and Kokikat are the symbols of powerful children's imagination, that can protects, change and heal our environment and ourselves.
What the world would look like, if we would celebrate and nourish children's imagination and their dreams?
By creating the space for children's imagination to develop it freely, by encouraging and supporting the most vivid and bizarre fantasies of our youngest generations, by simply letting them be, we would open up the space and opportunities to heal our dis-balanced societies, struggling environment and minds that constantly rushing forward.
Already in the young age (7 year old) children tend to limit their imagination and fantasies, in what is possible or allowed. That, i believe, directly influence children's choices and how they will live their lives in the future. Most of the children already in that age have difficulties to allow themselves simply to create on paper literally anything they wish. How cat can be bigger then a house, how can we draw a castle in the garden, or carrots growing on the moon?
What is possible beyond our daily realities and how can we step into that power of endless creation? The basic principals of present education and the realities of daily lives in homes, sometimes seems as a main cause of diminishing kids imagination and dreams.
I was very inspired by the children drawings and chose to use them as a inspiration for my last work. In the drawing bellow you can see Jojpa, Konypoeki and Kokikat.
Playing with the background
