Parent's nightmare

• Medium / Material: mixed technique (graphite pencil, pastel, watercolor, ink) on paper;
• Size in centimeters:55x52 cm


I tried to translate me in the mind of a parent, who receives the news that her child suffer from cancer.

The pain suffered, I tried to transpose it through dark colours and chiaroscuro light. In contrast to the thinking of a child who doesn’t understand what is happening and still continue to live happy and optimistic. He doesn’t understand why everyone around him are sad because of this diagnosis, and feels slowly frustrated that the world looks at him in a special way than before.
The artwork express the emotion that feels a mother,when she receives the news that her child has cancer.
The despair that a parent feels in that moment, I surprised it through facials muscles tension. The parent feels so tense that she wants this time to be a nightmare. So, she falls asleep her child, and then she cries alone in her bed thinking of hopeless ideas about the future of her child..

All aches and pains of symptoms which the child it will suffer makes her mother horrified. All this dramatic message, I amplified it by black and white contrast.In this drawing the child is suggested. He is achieved by a naive construction technique and by vivid colours to highlight hes helplessness in the face of disease and also the optimism that has a child to continue to live a normal life. The little frustrated expression of the child represents the outraged which feels a sick child when others sidelined him due to illness he has.

We should protect children suffering from cancer, but in a manner in which they do not feel involved or overly protected. They want to have a normal life. Therefore, the two techniques for achieving parent-child relationship in this drawing is fragmented. The mother hide the desperation by her child (made by black and white technique) and the child would still be the same child(conducted by vivid colours). The dark spots on child represents the sadness on which the mother sent it of the child involuntarily.