'Children' 2005-2008
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‘Picture of Innocence’ Anne Higonnet
When we mourn the passing of childhood, we are really mourning our own passing, the inevitable end of all lives in death.
We fend off death’s terrors, snapshot by snapshot, pretending to save the moment, halt time, preserve childhood intact. We never succeed, of course, so we have to keep on trying... We treasure our own childhood snapshot identities. They give testimony to an imaginary time when we were perfect and innocent, when we were, we would like to believe, our original and therefore real selves.