Crayon Series | Forgotten Children | Miscellaneous | TrueColor | LandSurveyors | Melodies | Close Up
This experimental series of blurred children portraits focuses on images of children as anonymous individuals. The final images are littered with common names of children rendered in “crayonAlphabet” color. The anonymity of these individuals is reflected in both the technique and the written text that is being used in each individual frame as a face without a name is only a fiction of an individual. One of the faces used in the series is a self portrait of myself as a child, rendered in the same style and with the same set of random common names, to appear similar in every to the other portraits, one portrait among the many.
The idea behind the unknown faces comes from my attempt to “fill” a lost childhood with fictional children that I might have known if I could only remember that time period of my life. The private color language used to spell out the several hundreds of names of these anonymous individuals, further distances the similarity of any real child from that of a pretend playmate. The names of these ghosts, like so much fiction, are written in the lost language of crayons from a forgotten youth.
Example of the names used in the work:
Michael
Lisa
David
Mary
John
Susan
James
Karen
Robert
Kimberly
Mark
William
Linda
Richard
Donna
Thomas
Michelle
Jeffrey
Cynthia
Steven
Sandra
Joseph
Deborah
Timothy
Tammy
Kevin
Pamela
Scott
Lori
Brian
Laura
Charles
Elizabeth
Paul
Julie
Daniel
Brenda
Christopher
Jennifer
Kenneth
Barbara
Anthony
Angela
Gregory
Sharon
Ronald
Debra
Donald
Teresa
Gary
Nancy
Stephen
Christine
Eric
Cheryl
Edward
Denise
Douglas
Kelly
Todd
Tina
Patric
Kathleen
George
Melissa
Keith
Robin
Larry
Amy
Matthew
Diane
Terry
Dawn
Andrew
Carol
Dennis
Tracy
Randy
Kathy
Jerry
Rebecca
Peter
Theresa
Frank
Kim
Craig
Rhonda
Raymond
Stephanie
Jeffery
Cindy
Bruce
Janet
Rodney
Wendy
Mike
Maria
Roger
Michele
Tony
Jacqueline
Ricky
Debbie
Steve
Margaret
Jeff
Paula
Troy
Sherry
Alan
Catherine
Carl
Carolyn
Danny
Laurie
Russell
Sheila
Chris
Ann
Bryan
Jill
Gerald
Connie
Wayne
Diana
Joe
Terri
Randall
Suzanne
Lawrence
Beth
Dale
Andrea
Phillip
Janice
Johnny
Valerie
Vincent
Renee
Martin
Leslie
Bradley
Christina
Billy
Gina
Glenn
Lynn
Shawn
Annette
Jonathan
Cathy
Jimmy
Katherine
Sean
Judy
Curtis
Carla
Barry
Wanda
Bobby
Anne
Walter
Dana
Jon
Joyce
Philip
Regina
Samuel
Beverly
Jay
Monica
Jason
Bonnie
Dean
Kathryn
Jose
Anita
Tim
Sarah
Roy
Darlene
Willie
Jane
Arthur
Sherri
Darryl
Martha
Henry
Anna
Darrell
Colleen
Allen
Vicki
Victor
Tracey
Harold
Judith
Greg
Tamara
Albert
