I saw kids playing on the street of Granada, Nicaragua, with cheap soldier toys and I thought the colors were horrible. 
Art Installation
Attention les enfants écoutent… (be careful, the children are listening…)
This installation is a reflection about the degradation of innocence, by asking different questions.
- Do you lose innocence in one time or is gradual?
- When you lose your innocence do you lose the capacity and courage to make your dreams come true?
- Do you lose your innocence because of the society that demands to grow up too fast or is it the upbringing or the example given by the parents.
I went to different schools in Granada, Nicaragua in order to ask kids from 4-12 yo to draw mommy and daddy. Once I collected all the drawings I went back to my studio where I spent 10 hours a day for 3 days, without discontinuing, to revamp each drawing, using at first the same gesture following the kids’ lines which allowed me at first to bring me back to my own childhood. I then started to dirty and change the original drawing by adding colors, taking away the father figure and dirtying regularly the image of the family, realizing as hours were going by the cause of a part of the loss of my innocence.
Photos taken in the Personal Exhibition. Monkdogz. November 2011, New York City