Andrew Burton
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This body of work looks at spaces that, to an adult, might suggest a sense of danger and raise caution but, to a child, allow for an extension of their imagination and childhood fantasy. These are spaces that could once have been the backdrop for many adults play when they were children, but as they have matured and as that sense of imagination has diminished, now appear little more than areas of abandonment. The work explores the anxiety and tension created when children are seen to occupy these peripheral areas allowing the innocence of the child’s adventure and curiosity to be questioned as a sense of unease builds, within the adult, in witnessing these scenarios.