Notes

‘This work came as a response to reading William Blake’s Songs of Innocence, where I was thinking about the ‘fall’ from innocence into consciousness, from child to adult. The playground or Kindergarten is overshadowed by a massive tree signifying the tree of knowledge – something that could be seen as the violent disruptor, it’s Rorschach mirroring like a mushroom cloud. I wanted the oval play area to be surrounded by the absence of paint, the stark unknown just beyond the safety of the playground.’ —Ruby Swinney

Provenance

WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town.

Private Collection.

Exhibited

Investec Cape Town Art Fair, 2019.

Tang Contemporary Art, Hong Kong, Global Song, 6 January to 12 February 2022.