Monoprint oil on paper

Original made in 2025

Size 51 × 71cms

Time is a human construct, and so is growing up. We choice to leave things behind in childhood, as society pressures tells us we must.To be a respectable and tax paying member of society, to bare children, but not too many. To work, but not at the expense of your family. To have a passion that doesn’t consume you and to contribute in a positive way to your local and global community. Little time or acceptance for maintaining healthy habits from childhood, or reclaiming experiences from a childhood lost. Adults need to be playful, as we did in childhood. To play out, to play together, to playfully engage. The word play carries with it a variety of personal experiences, squashed together around societal norms. Play for adults also has layers of appropriate behaviours for the genders, prescribing approved ways of which to engage with the term as an adult. And like the concept of time for us humans, play descends us and finds its way into animals and nature. It’s not confided to the human experience but a much broader and transcending element of life on earth.