Start Seeing Diversity Blog: Creating Art

What I wanted to show in the illustration is that children build their identities from what other people think about them or their groups, which can be biases, something that causes children to feel discomfort or trauma (Spay of the colors indicating that). I also wanted to show that those messages or experiences stay in children as they grow up. I did not add physical features for the children because the differences among children are limitless and these differences are equally important. The colors are both in dark and bright colors because children get positive and negative messages and the mix of the colors can be taken as beautiful or dirty depending on people viewing it because I believe that identities are the same since some people may think one person’s features are cool and others may not agree. I chose to not put faces on the children as they are growing up in the illustration because some children view their identities as positive and others do not. I also wanted to show identities are subjective and dynamic in some ways.