This piece is a deeply personal and imaginative self-portrait that captures the idea of escape, play, and identity through the lens of childhood creativity.
My figure emerges from a rough wooden surface — raw, unfinished, and grounding — while your face blends painterly realism with chaotic bursts of texture and colour. The materials are eclectic: LEGO bricks, wires, fuzzy pipe cleaners, glitter, and mixed media, all layered to form the structure of your body and mind. These elements evoke the tactile joy of childhood invention, when imagination built entire worlds from simple pieces.
The LEGO forms act like fragments of memory and architecture — both playful and protective. They suggest a psychological landscape, a personal fortress made of childhood wonder where you could escape, build, and rebuild endlessly. The contrast between the exposed wood background and the vivid, constructed figure highlights the tension between vulnerability and creation — the child within still building, still dreaming.
There’s a sense of nostalgia and resilience here: an acknowledgment that creativity wasn’t just play, but a way to survive, to express, and to stay connected to self.
