Simone Kestelman

Ceramic and Steel 16" d x 30" high

Ceramic

Ceramic and Red glaze

Photography on Metal

Have you ever felt like even you suffering internally and keeping your pain on the inside, you are showing yourself happy to others? The best way to explain this feeling is to think of a theater where the actors are all wearing masks... Those masks hide all problems from the outside world, but the reality behind the mask might be very different.

For some, childhood was an unpleasant and torturing experience.

Life is like that, isn’t it? We face each other. We go up and down. One minute all seems right, the next minute our world comes crashing down.

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.

Glass and bullets cartridges. Life is so precious that sometimes we don't have enough time to savior the best moments.

Glass and used bullets cartridges

60" x 30"

Take off evokes freedom. These wings represent my ability to explore all possibilities without wearing the shackles of preconceived ideas, because they allow me to free my imagination from the restraints I sometimes impose on myself. As such, they offer me the means to contemplate lands and sceneries I'd never thought would come to light, but they also bring me back to shelter whenever I need the safety of my own world, my personal artistic universe. They offer me the strength I tap onto wh

Hand made Ceramic Red Balloon

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 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.

Toys not only allow us to revisit our childhood, but they also give those who play with them the power to reinvent their world.This is about the children who are deprived of their childhood. Children that are born of a war, that are enslaved, used as a child bride. All these tragedies pierce their fragile existences and corrode their sense of security. These children have no say in their fate, no way out. They are at the mercy of predators.

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

It is part of a project called Invisible that replicates different children’s toys. It’s a commentary on the importance of childhood and the impact of even simple toys have on a child’s experience.