Oil on canvas.
“My grandfather had two children and owned a house at the age I am now. Back then you left school and had to work for your keep. Put on your uniform, pull up your trousers and get on with it. In some ways a man’s youth was cut short. In some ways it stinted your growth into adulthood.
Due to this thrusting into accelerated acclimating into manhood, they are lost. Not allowing these young men to feel their way around their youth leaves them drowning in a lifetime of frustration. There is a lot of his vulnerabilities and fleeting innocence in these young men. This is the boy inside the 80 year old, screaming to get out.
This imagery was from a found series of photos sourced in Amsterdam”.
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