Inner child lies deep within everyone of us, often covered with a thick layer of imposed behavioral schemes. They were given to us for sake of blending into society, although they tend not to go along with our feelings. We get lost in a constant confrontation and inner clashes. We feel bad, get depressed, lose our identity, get lost and lonely in life, sometimes alienated. One thing society doesn’t teach us is how to be emotionally balanced and live in harmony with ourselves. Modern psychology tells us that one of ways to get along with our lives and ourselves is to get reconnected to the inner child, a semi-independent subpersonality subjected to the waking conscious mind.
The round Mirror inside the mural symbolizes a reflection of the individual’s childlike aspect, where the child inside has a halo of innocence around its head. The child is woven between different and mysterious aspects of our psyche, like animalistic figures or adult/manly like unpleasant faces. The two yellow figures symbolize the unknown, uncontrolable and spontaneous forces, which allow us to finally see inside ourselves.
Łódź, Poland, 2020
*with Maciej Walczak
