KIRRILY ANDERSON: October 2013

A couple of years ago I saw the movie "The Road", a post a apocalyptic story about a boy and his father and their search for a better place in a world of poverty, depression, cannibalism and perpetual danger.

I felt moved by the child's character and the responsibility he was forced to take on in such a world - the only world he had ever known. Despite his maturity and his responsibilities he couldn't help but still be a child from time to time. This struck a cord with me and I was moved by his innocence.

My exploration of the theme of children in a post apocalyptic world began with a large hand drawn paste up, pasted in Collingwood in in 2012.

I then followed this with another large scale, hand drawn paste up in Brunswick - this time with more of an installation element.

After the large paste ups, I decided to focus on a smaller illustration so I could add more detail, this became the first illustration of the series as well as a very large paste up (photocopied this time and not hand drawn, in Toronto, Canada as part of Art de la Roo ).

After Art de la Roo, I began thinking more about this theme in relation to a space as opposed to being on the street. I was discussing this with projection artist Yandell Walton when we decided it would be a great theme to collaborate on. As artists our work is completely different, but we both have a strong interest in space as part of our work and this was the binding element for our collaboration.

I began working on 4 illustrations on paper which then became the 'static' children of our post apocalyptic world.

Innocence of the Apocalypse went from illustrative paste ups to a completely immersive installation based collaboration. Projection, sound, installation, performance and illustration all came together in an empty building in Collingwood in September 2013.