Hikari Shimoda - Children of this planet

Children's eyes are a guarantee of purity, are an expression of peace "intact" is not contaminated by the world; a shelter and a smile that gives relief to those people instead now grown ( bad! ) and tormented by life ever.

In the eyes of the children painted by Hikari Shimoda, however, there is something quite different: are empty, scary, sinister, and imbued with unresolved trauma .

The horns , the clouds, backgrounds dark , the stars hung from the neck reminiscent of those that "signaled" being Jewish during the Holocaust , depicting children who themselves are the monsters of their deepest fears .

The bright colors , the delicate lines fail to alleviate the tension ' horror ' that emanate these characters featured in children, but their children are not .

I wonder if Hikari Shimoda still afraid of the dark, if you still believe in monsters under the bed ... I wonder what Freud would say about her!

What gives of himself in his works certainly tells much about his past as well , and certainly managed to leave , artistically , a trace of something that in the end in itself has not vanished completely ...