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| Childhood Torn Apart, Chaz Howkins, 2015, assemblage on board |
I went on from creating the silhouette paintings on collaged backgrounds by taking this idea further and painting on material collaged on board. I planned to leave the piece at the painted stage but felt it was rather uninteresting, so I decided to collage further by adding doll limbs, clothing and chunks of doll hair. This turned the piece into more of an assemblage piece as it was now three dimensional. The scattered limbs and hair give the piece a broken, disconnected feel, as if to represent a childhood which has been torn apart.