Childhood Depiction

September 20th, 2010

Lloyd created a series that depicts his love for children yet great fear of procreating. So far 7 pieces have been completed. Crippling childhood with verbally abusive father. Decided to cut himself from his parents. Pulling from Ready-made items, collections as allegories to memories. Lloyd had an idea of using night-lights to statistically represent the number of children who are abused every year. Then moved to see how to make a sculptural piece. He ended with the word “suckers” that could be spelled out in night-lights, then “That Sucked” or “Well That Sucked” as other options.

Critique:
Darrell Appelzoller: Making the work too personal cuts the audience out and there are too many details and the problem of there being a punch-line to the piece.

Kim Llerena: They won’t get the stats to the back-story of your childhood drama.

Nancy Daly: Without the backstory, what would we get?

Will Knipscher: We understand the fear of continuing the drama of the cycle of creating the terrible childhood of our own children.

John McNeil: There are a lot of layers you want to get to, but the simple phrase is given too much weight that can’t convey that gravity of what you are trying to get at.

Lloyd Lowe, Jr.: Nightlight does represent safety for a child in the middle of the night. I shied away from adult-themed night-lights.

Miranda Lichtenstein: Too much of a one-liner. But the wording of “Safe and Sound” had an interesting effect. The stats could come through in other avenues. The ideas are laid and the back-story – childhood is difficult; we get it. The darkness of it comes through when your dad defaced your own blog.

Will Knipscher: The night-lights are used for children to battle irrational fears.

Kim Llerena: The pieces installation details about a past experience and not a future event about your fear of being a father.

Will Knipscher: The night-lights with the images has so much additional baggage.