LOST .... Watercolour / Portrait of Adolescence

My water colour portrait - "LOST" ........ Portrait of Adolescence.
Style - Fauvism. ( Fauvism is a style in which certain colours are used predominantly to create mood and emotion) / Size A3

LOST
The unseeing eyes seek a path.
They know not which way to go.
They know not what lies within.
They know not how to reach out.
Isolated and abandoned,
They only see a jungle around !

I saw a dream a few days back. I was looking at a scene as an outside energy in the dream.
I saw this tall apartment building. In the balcony one of the apartments in the building were three children crying.
Below was a crowded street with an upmarket cafe.
Two things stuck to my mind in the dream.
A sense of a red facade in the cafe. And a sense of dark gloom emanating from the balcony.
Suddenly I saw a woman walk into the balcony. With unseeing eyes she walked to the edge and fell off the balcony.
Children were abandoned and crying.
My eyes moved to the street and the cafe. I saw people going about their business as if nothing happened.
I looked up and thought , "doesn't anybody care that the children are abandoned, isolated and need help ? Doesn't anybody know that the mother died ? Did nobody see anything".
At that precise moment I awoke feeling a strange pain in my chest.
The dream stayed in my mind. It was so vivid.

A few days later, my news feed was filled with news about Trump's Family Separation policy and children abandoned in shelters !

These are two isolated occurrences. Not related.
But they brought to my mind a question that has forever plagued me. -
"What kind of a world are we giving our children?" ….
In the modern society, children are shackled in systems of school, college and adhering to the dictates of society even before they begin to understand themselves.

The pressure of performance, lifestyle and livelihood is so huge, that all the life of an individual from birth to death, is spent in creating basic securities and living a lifestyle classified and defined by money.

Very early in life, a child's right to play, explore, understand, observe & experience himself and his environment is snatched from him. Adding to the scenario is a sense of psychological and emotional abandonment children feel due over busy parents or dysfunctional or broken family structures. And sometimes due to excessive protection and pampering !

It leads to children growing up into teenagers who score marks but are unable to develop life skills and deal with tough situations.

I have always been involved with children.
Over the years I have seen that children are growing more and more intelligent. But with increasing trust & communication issues and performance pressures. ( It is important to understand that demanding is not communicating).

By the time children enter adolescence, they are emotionally lost and isolated. Sometimes rude, sometimes quiet, sometimes excessively polite. But non-communicative. In a shell, abandoned by an apathetic social atmosphere.

Abandoned in insecurity, livelihood pressures, instability, wars, conflicts, stress. It is a garden of thorns and baobabs - this is not a garden to grow up in.

I sometimes feel that just like there are centres of learning for children, there should be centres of learning for adults to make them understand their responsibility towards the children & youth .

My water colour "LOST" Portrait of an Adolescent.
Size A3
Style - Fauvism. ( Fauvism is a style in which certain colours are used predominantly to create mood and emotion).

LOST
The unseeing eyes seek a path.
They know not which way to go.
They know not what lies within.
They know not how to reach out.
Isolated and abandoned,
They only see a jungle around !

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My watercolour Painting, an Art contribution on @elegance / Colorchallenge Monday Red

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@nehab / Neha Bisht

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