To date there are still thousands of young children employed in conflicts around the world. Children should be playing with balls not with guns. This one was originally sprayed on signs reading “no ballgames” at play grounds.
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A little child is painting a bright rainbow reminding us that everybody needs one.
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The work addresses the spending spree of the US government on anything military related. In 2015 the government spent almost 600 billion US$ on Military. That is 54 % of all federal discretionary spending, compared to 3 % on social security, 3 % on science, 6 % on health and 6 % on education (National Priorities Project). At the same time, the national debt has exceeded 18 Trillion dollars in 2015 (Forbes). In the painting, a poor Uncle Sam is sitting on the world making little fighter jets looking like an old man feeding pigeons.
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The motive is a reaction to the many photos on facebook of starving children, mistreated animals, catastrophes etc. For some reason they receive many 'likes' even though there is nothing to like nor do these help or change anything. So, here is a starving kid sitting on a big pile of 'likes' trying to eat one.
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The icon for the disciples of Apple, iPod, iPad, iPhone and so on. Every time a new version is launched the disciples are waiting in front of the store as if the messiah is returning. Steve Jobs was a hippie and Buddhist or a capitalistic sociopath? A laughing Buddha with a halo made out of apples? No problem for people who treat this company like a religion. Steve Jobs would be proud.
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A little kid is pushing a car with a mounted gunner. ‘Playtime’ addresses the response of world leaders following events such as 9/11 or more recently in Paris, the downing of a Russian airplane at the Turkish border etc. Quickly, war is declared, planes deployed and it begins again. It feels like a little kid is over-reacting and without thinking, strikes. In this case the little kids are prime ministers or presidents who should know better. Who should sit down and think instead of sending their armies abroad.
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The degrees of separation describe the closeness of people. Every person someone knows personally, equals 1 degree. The friend of a friend is two degrees away. In today’s interconnected world the maximal distance of everyone on the planet with everyone else is a maximum of 6 degrees, be it via friends, acquaintances, family etc. The theory is based on Stanley Milgram’s small world phenomenon describing social networks.
This work describes the degrees of separation between George W. Bush and Osama bin Laden. Taking into account the huge social networking both of them conducted it is more likely that there were far less than 6 degrees apart, much more like the friend of a friend….
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… when your ipod only has 1 GB. Taking into perspective what really matters in our lives is sometimes hard to see. When you are surrounded by wealth one quickly forgets that big parts of the world are not that lucky, that there might be more important things than the choice of for example the music-playing device. This work does not describe a “first-world” problem. It also reflects on what people consider important, spending money on crap instead of taking care of themselves.
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