Mommy, I’m Scared is a composition of drainage pipe connects a polar sea—with catastrophic melting, and an Asian woman and her children adrift in a vessel christened Wuhan—and a safe, bucolic civilized place, signifying the connections between threats from afar and of the vague, relentless, creeping terror of the unknown future, especially from a perspective of passivity, and with the image of a child used (1) to suggest vulnerability, and (2) the responsibility of the current adult population to future generations. A dead fish floats at the bottom, counterpoint to the false assurances from one of the parents.
Materials: Antique frame and convex glass; antique photo manipulated with Photoshop, including various additional public domain images; liquid plastic; dead fish.
Dimensions: 30cm x 46cm x 2.5cm, 0.8kg
