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Andorra
Claudia Uno Age 8
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| CommentaryThis piece is a theatrical illustration of a child's desire for a long period of global games and playing. The figures ask the spectator: aren't we due for that?
There are three main figures in the work, and they stand alongside one another as if they were lined up on stage infront of a starry curtain. The first figure, a girl, blissfully plays hulla-hoop and gestures to the world in introduction of the act. It is quite a common practice that the entity of the globe makes the central part of the composition, and that it is personified, here, as a sympathetic friend. Its mouth and nose have a sailboat shape. The hull of the sailboat is trying to join two parts of the continent of the esarth. The third figure looks like a birthday cake and shines with candles. The very rosy and happy cheeks inside the head of the cake is celebratory, and seems to outstretch his arms as if saying to the first figure, balancing is easy! Again, however. there is a partisan aspect to the illustration of peace, the world being in the center; yet the childartist subtly conducts her figures to make the viewer prepared for a birthday of harmony, perhaps the spreading of balance and ease to that part of the world.
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