Childhood Anxiety Dyptich

This diptych explores childhood anxiety through the lens of memories. It develops the idea of resistance against the crude pace of new experiences, partly through the spiraling of the viewer’s perspective toward the right. The visible storyline of this piece is intentionally as unclear as it was to me when I was a child. The isolation of my protagonist, on the other hand, further illustrates the solitude of anxiety. On the left, the discomfort of disorientation and the signs of panic that are associated with letting go of my mother’s hand are depicted through the unnatural colors and the vanishing point perspective. With the exception of the superimposed hands, the image is fuzzy to display the age of the memory, which comes from when I was only five. The right section references a leap of faith, the early construction of self-confidence. The forced perspective and over exaggerated small size of feet communicate just how small I felt both physically and psychologically at that time.