Child learning to levitate Painting

This series about "illuminated" children started as a project where I found photos of brilliant women( writers, scientists, painters...) when they were children and tried to recreate their inner world using a chandelier as a symbol for their special clarity and light. It when on to a search for photos ( I openly asked on the internet for adults to send me family photos or school photos of them as children) I was amazed to discover their whereabouts as adults which were so contrasting and where the circumstances of life had pulled them apart, nevertheless their aura of hope remained in those portraits. I was hooked and have been working since in trying to capture not so evidently but in a suggestive atmosphere the inner and outer territory of childhood.