Children At Play

Through the exchanges in “Material Connections”, we discovered a specific combination of source material that proved to be rich in imagery and thematic content, which generated our ongoing series “Children at Play.” Emily combined images of children playing from the book “Children’s Play Spaces; From sandbox to adventure playground” that Eden had sent her with backgrounds from an old children’s atlas book, “The Children’s Picture Atlas of the World,” and Eden suggested adding text from the book. Eden created sound art to accompany the images using image to sound software and then editing and adding to the sound.  By juxtaposing these two sources, Emily discovered myriad ways to comment on environmental and social exploitation, colonization and capitalism.