Simone Kestelman

Vintage Furniture, handmade glass counter top, glass dress with pearls and crochet, gas mask

Vintage Furniture, handmade glass counter top, glass dress with pearls and crochet, gas mask

Take off evokes freedom but without innocence.

I miss running barefoot in search of magic. Every child has a story. Some get told...some don’t.

This work uses a footstool children often use to reach up to their toys as a comment on some styles of upbringing that robs the child of all possibility of growth. Some parents raise their children in such a suffocating way that prevents them from developing into all the potential they have.

Children often use stools to reach up. Unfortunately, many children face painful barriers to achieving their potencial. This work uses a footstool children often use to reach up to their toys as a comment on some styles of upbringing that robs the child of all possibility of growth. Some parents raise their children in such a suffocating way that prevents them from developing into all the potential they have.

This work is about both the frailty with which every child comes into the world and the happiness and pain that having a child represents.

This work is about both the frailty with which every child comes into the world and the happiness and pain that having a child represents.

This work is about both the frailty with which every child comes into the world and the happiness and pain that having a child represents.

This work is about the emotional swing that children sometimes endure when they are victims of sexual violence. They are a thorn between the anger towards the adults who inflicts this horrible crime on them, and the unjustified sense of guilt they feel when they ask themselves about who is responsible for it.

This is about the children who are deprived of their childhood.

Toys not only allow us to revisit our childhood, but they also give those who play with them the power to reinvent their world.

Toys not only allow us to revisit our childhood, but they also give those who play with them the power to reinvent their world.

Shuttlecock made of grenade and feathers. Children who have grown up surrounded by violence see this as a permanent way of life.

Shuttlecock made of grenade and feathers. Children who have grown up surrounded by violence see this as a permanent way of life.

Photography on Metal

Glass colar with zirconias

Glass chastity belt with metal

Cast Glass, human hair and metal chain. A whip consisting of a fragile glass penis attached to female hair, a symbol of instinct and seduction.

Photography

Photography

Ceramic Dress with white Gold and pearls

Psychological scars left by verbal abuse are much more difficult to recover from.