INNOCENT DESIRES

INNOCENT DESIRES
April 29 - May 13, 2011

One often wonders how fleeting childhood can be. A child’s world ends at the door of adulthood but this door never locks up and even when one has reached adulthood, the wonders of child hood awaits at the turn of a knob. One only has to open the door and be a child again even just for a moment.

The wonders of childhood may not only lie in its capacity to fill a child’s innocent life with innocent harmless desires, it may also has to do with all the "real", important things and controversies we have surrounded our mature selves with and in the way we lose all our innocence. We have to lest society swallows us up because society never runs out of creative and often cruel ways to sneak up on anyone especially those irreverently asking for it with their mindless ways.

Innocence is understood as a positive view of one’s virtues and values without any taint of wrong doing which hypothetically, is considered redundant, highly idealistic and moot to be a huge part of reality. In contrast to ignorance however, norms consider it a positive term with a tinge of cynicism connoting a rose tinted view of the world- a world only known to those actively experiencing them- the child, the adult only having trace knowledge and a bloated but truly faint memory of it. There is a false etymology explaining "innocent" as meaning "not knowing" (Latin noscere). The actual etymology is from general negation prefix in- and the Latin nocere, "evil" or "guilty" This makes the word itself not as innocent as it is misunderstood. As relatively irrational and irrelevant as they come, Innocence is therefore the realm of the child and we adults should not bother our sophisticated and educated (experience wise) selves with it, right? Wrong.

From this plain causality emanates an intricately complex and ever nagging conundrum: Was the collective innocence lost worth all the knowledge gained and would the set of knowledge gained ever help all attain wisdom without the virtues of innocence? One can only surmise innumerable possibilities but with deeper introspection, Innocence in the end would comprise a much larger part of our maturity than previously believed and a society losing it completely will only be to its own demise.

Einstein once said “if you traveled into space in a straight line, you will eventually come back to where you started” Granting all things as a realm of Quantum Physics and are explainable by virtue of causality, leaving innocence in search of wisdom will eventually bring us back to innocence itself with a more profound view of it. This profound view has inspired our artists to present a set of works regarding their innocent desires to confront the said conundrum using an equally powerful and advanced medium of digital art which up until recently has never seen wide usage in art exhibitions.

This exhibit is about artists turning the knob of the door to visit their childhood and glean valuable wisdom that anybody can use in the adult world. This also eventually grew into a body of work revisiting childhood desires, dreams, ambitions, behavior, habit, frustrations, memories, moments, experience, the toys, sensibilities, mind sets, and other childhood what not’s. Basically it’s all about AN ADULT'S REVIEW OF HIS CHILDHOOD AND ALL LESSONS TO BE GLEANED FROM IT TO MAKE LIFE COME FULL CIRCLE.

Written by Noel N. Pocot