Shadow Kids are both solid and spectral: playthings and constellations mapped over the traces of fear. They speak to childhood’s duality—the wonder, play, and innocence alongside deep vulnerability. Nearly life‑size silhouettes of children—flattened into shadow—are layered with the night sky, toy airplanes, and the marks of my hand.

I want these silhouettes to ask that we consider how poverty, political violence, environmental threats, war, and the ubiquity of guns shape the contours of childhood. The shadows are not mere absence; they are presence refracted through danger, memory, and care.