Loss of Innocence -
Acrylic and oil on canvas using palette knife, brush, foil and rag.
This aims to capture the melancholic shadow which surfaces like a foreboding chaos from the individual's unconscious, upon the sudden realization that; all the simplistic beauty and freedom of existence once enjoyed within the innocence of youth, is to inevitably be lost to time and authority; and that very fate, is not exclusively resigned to us personally, but to every emotionally and intellectually mature being on this planet. The loss of Innocence brings with it the realization that life is suffering, death forever reaches, and that each of us are doomed to forget, that quality which had in youth made life so carefree, as we continue to live within the shadow of this terrible understanding; all to aware of the fate that has befell us, and that will, also, befall our children.