Capturing childhood; shelters

I decided to experiment with the traditional shape of a house, alluding to the wendy houses of childhood aswell as a childs simple perception of how they depict houses in their drawings. I used canvas and quite rough stitching to evoke a sense of the handmade and craft more closely associated with something a child might create. However, I think the way that these houses are made makes them seem haunting and almost ghostlike. I wanted to try and bring together the impossibility of preserving shadow with the impossibility of preserving childhood. They both come down to the impossible fight against time which I feel is so core to the human condition as we constantly strive to repeat the past. I covered the inside in inkiodye and as with the sun prints, no shadows were preserved as the whole interior turned blue. Aesthetically I like the contrast between this plain rough outside with quite a luxurious blue interior, However, the subtle spilling of blue to the outside, somewhat shows the blurring of states and enhances the inbetweeness that I think the pieces evoke. I have deliberately hung them so as to cause a viewer to re-evaluate how they see a small house shape for it is in an undefined context. In hanging them they are left open and probably evoke more of an ambivalent response. Again, this strong sense of momentary contrast comes into play, as with shadows themselves, they are still as they hang but are they about to rise or fall? You do not know,they represent transcience on many different levels.