UNHAPPY KID

2022, digital painting portrait, animated gif

A symbolic paradox. A provocative parody proposes the need to build a bridge of meaning between the iconic figure of an adult and a surreal childhood dimension.
A pedagogical question arises as to what is the imperceptible point of transformation.
Where does a man-child grow up and lose empathy with his own race? A human being who chooses to direct his aggression against his fellow human beings, on what foundations has he built his human being in the childhood dimension?
Also the Italian Republic mesures itself everyday with the ghost of the human destructive power and the cult of anachronistic nationalism.

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