When people die
Death is no stranger in a child's life, since all kids are in frequent contact with situations that are related to it. Our attitudes towards death emerge and are consolidated during childhood as a result of our education and the culture we were raised in.
With this photographic series the artist tries to look into the inner world of children to investigate what they think about death and what happens when someone dies.
Each child represents in a graphic way what they think, and acquires an active role in his position and his performance in the image.
"At night the soul comes out, makes a tiny hole and puts it like it was, it goes all the way up above the houses, higher than the redwood, till it reaches the castle of the dead"
"I don't know what happens when someone dies, but I would like to see a dead person"
"When someone dies, he goes to a star in the sky"
"When someone dies, he falls from the sky and a whale holds it with its water"
"When someone dies, he can't walk nor take steps, and he goes to heaven"
"When people die, they stay with their tongue out and they go flying to God"
"People die and then their soul goes up and they get buried. The body stays down and they don't survive, they remain dead forever"
"I don't know what happens when someone dies, but their family gets very sad when he is not with them."
"When someone dies he goes to heaven, higher than the sun till he reaches God"
"When people die, their insides are gone and they are put in a box and get buried"
"When people die their body stays in the cemetery and their souls goes to the sky with God. Their relatives go to visit the tomb and take them flowers because they miss them a lot"
"I don't know what happens when someone dies but I become very sad, and don't want to show my face"
"When a whole family dies they bury them together and go to heaven"
"When people die their heart stops working, they don't think, they can't have fun, and become angels. It’s bad when someone dies, I don't like it, but there’s nothing we can do about it"
"When someone dies he gets buried and then goes to heaven"
Ceramics by Jono Pandolfi | middle images shot at Aro Ha