Polixeni Papapetrou engages reality and fantasy, moving through the mysterious landscape of Australia as a backdrop for narratives about the transitional space of childhood. In unreal theatrical guises, the children emerge enigmatically as animals; they are present but their child identity recedes: new archetypes emerge as animal apparitions that speak to us about transformation and self-realizing periods in our lives. The abstract meeting of these two forms, inner child and outer presence may indicate the cyclical nature of our life spans that inevitably brings us back to the freedom of childhood imagination.
