The main message of my work is that we make judgement on each other. This is based on our education. We decide what is good and what is bad and we are just slightly flexible in this.
Research
We have clear ideas about trustful and not trustful attributes and face features. To ensure, that we do this, I looked for examples from the reality. I collected photos about serial killers and Nobel peace awarded people. As a part of my research, I have shown fewer known images to people, asking them, who would they trust in. People found antipathic characters with no evident reason, or give trust to others, who are dangerous. This is how successful serial killers can stay hidden, they improve skills to impress people, to get their trust easily.
Select the 4 persons you would trust in.
Doll
The doll is a tool of education. We teach with dolls to our children the appropriate social behaviour. We often articulate what is good and bad, then we connect these attributes to symbols and colours.
The figure of the dolls on my work, along with children and childhood, represents the future of mankind and innocence.
Faces in the background
The most difficult part of the concept was the choice of the faces that will present good and bad. At first, I determined the most important face features that people use to connect with human values. I presented this judgement on my painting by mixing up symbols, giving that impression, it is impossible to determine who is the good and the bad figure. It is.
I used opposite features, like wrinkles contra nice and young face features, black and white shades, opposite genders. The figures are upside down one to another. These are all things, people may connect preconceptions to.
Composition
Both figures of the background interact with the doll, meanwhile the doll shows no sign to react with them. It suggest, that education invisibly determine the way of thinking of people. We unintendedly study our opinion in early childhood.
The painting has a shape of square. It is easy to divide it in two parts. The size of the square is 76 cm. 7, the number of God and the 6, the number of Satan, present the concept in the size as well.