Childhood Fears: A Photo Spread

[scaeagles]

I found those all to be very disturbing, actually. Or at least most of them. Perhaps it is because I have children close to the age of those in the photos and imagine my own children in some of those situations (the realistic ones). I can imagine their fear in a very real way and was just......disturbed.

Don't know how other parents of younger children felt about those. Maybe i'm alone in how they struck me.

[LSPoorEeyorick]

Every man's worst nightmare is to realize he's having sex with a metal buffalo? Or every man's worst mightmare is to realize he's being violated by a moose?

I loved these photos, by the way, but I was a little disturbed about the partial nudity of the kids. It's art, they're family, I get it. But I guess it distracted me momentarily from being fully drawn in by the image.

[Strangler Lewis]

I thought the baby with the dead mother was the most affecting "what if" fear. On the other hand, I thought the picture with the older girl with the dead mother and the bugs looked almost like wish fulfillment rather than fear. The kid seemed ambivalent, which, perhaps, is realistic.

I thought some of the other realistic ones--crazy neighbor, crazy clown, mad dog--were more adult fears about things you worry about your kids running into.

[Nephythys]

I question the blocks in the "Monster under the bed" shot- they spell out "No Daddy" or "daddy no"

[Nephythys]

Originally Posted by Strangler Lewis

I thought the baby with the dead mother was the most affecting "what if" fear. On the other hand, I thought the picture with the older girl with the dead mother and the bugs looked almost like wish fulfillment rather than fear. The kid seemed ambivalent, which, perhaps, is realistic.

I thought some of the other realistic ones--crazy neighbor, crazy clown, mad dog--were more adult fears about things you worry about your kids running into.

The picture you refer to- "Bedside"- the little girl is reaching out to touch her mother. I get the impression than she does not even know what condition her mother is in as all the bugs are on the other side of the bed from her and her mothers face is turned away.

I thought that was that fear of going into your sleeping parents room- touching them and finding them dead- not that you wished them dead.

(and check the dogs "leg" - it's a werewolf)

-and I too was unnerved by the children in nothing but panties-I assume the purpose is to show how unprotected and vulnreable they are.

[Peachy Keen]

This one has always creeped me out.

[mousepod]

When I was a kid, my parents had a book with this piece of art. For years, I was scared to even go into the living room at night, knowing that the book containing this picture was there:

[Snowflake]

Originally Posted by Nephythys

ok- gang- click on his website- it gets creepier. There is one photo left off of that other link that is more disturbing than the rest (IMO)

ACK!

Ugh, I clicked the link! Ack! Eek!

[Nephythys]

Originally Posted by Snowflake

Ugh, I clicked the link! Ack! Eek!

oh yeah- that one freaked me out- the others did not so much.

[SzczerbiakManiac]

Originally Posted by Peachy Keen

This one has always creeped me out.

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