Dolls - pink Painting

If we look deep inside ourselves, we might have a chance to meet our inner child, which still inhabits us, despite the passing years. The girls presented in the pictures are in fact the images of a lonely inner child, dreaming of a perfect world unlike the one it experiences through adults. Various painful events in the child’s life form experiences they are unable to handle, and the adults are not always capable of teaching them to handle the situation. Thus, the child begins to dream of a perfect world, in which obstacles and difficulties of any kind will no longer exist, and the childish dream travels with them throughout their life. Both the children from the paintings by Joanna Jarco, pictured entirely in a void, extracted from reality despite their almost hyperreal presentation, and adults with similar childhood experiences are continuously immersed in the wait for the imagined perfect world, where they can finally do whatever they want. However, that reality keeps failing to come – there is always some “not yet” – therefore such people live in continuous emptiness and unfulfillment. A doll is a figure depicting a human being, its inanimate imitation, even if it is elaborated to perfection. The inner child, magically turned into a doll and only capable of dreaming of a world as artificial as itself, prevents from noticing and accepting the reality as it is. It prevents all development and change. It neither lives nor dies. The dolls presented by Joanna Jarco, stiff and "frozen" in one stage of movement, make us aware that it is high time to remove the shard of glass from our eye and to start living.