It's for your own good

This work is part of a series that explores our adult relationships to our child-self. As children we see every day things in extraordinary, disproportionate ways. This same distortion can be seen in how we remember our childhood experiences. Silly, crazy things stick in our minds and live with us all our lives. What I question is whether these memories are true? There’s no rational narrative running through our childhood memories, the idea of a shark under our bed is a real as dad lurching at us with a wooden spoon, our imagined fears are often as frightening as immediate threats. The unknowable truth is whether these memories are real or concocted in the tangled web of our subconscious.