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People like to fool themselves into thinking that children are pure, incapable of being anything but magical. Nobody likes to face the fact that children have just as many sick, deranged, complicated thoughts and feelings that everyone else does. The mind of a child is less sunshine and rainbows and more along the lines of Salvador Dali. In fact, I like the idea of them channelling that dark side into an artistic medium and allowing themselves to be free in that way. When I was a child, I drew and painted so many penises. I have illustrations I made of people having their limbs pulled off, having their nuts chopped off, having their teeth extracted. I used to draw people losig their arms and heads and just running around in direction less patterns, wanting to scream and being incapable. Eventually, my mom forced me to burn it all, and, after I did, I had nowhere to put these things that were swimming around in my brain. I look at myself as a child and I was a sweetheart, but I know that I had feelings and thoughts of sick things that I didn't know what to do with. Not sure where I was going with this, but you get the idea. |