Little White Duck 2024, reflects my concerns regarding gun violence. The work depicts a group of school children playing with toy guns in a duck pond. The QR code in the painting links to Burl Yves singing his song Little White Duck. The painting is featured in the publication Artists Responding To…Contemporary art, culture and activism. Summer 2024, Issue 11 “It takes a monster to kill children. But to watch monsters kill children again and again and do nothing isn’t just insanity — it’s inhumanity.” — Amanda Gorman

Violet Costello

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My works are often comical. But they also raise unsettling questions about our place in the world and the formation and meaning of cultural identities and stereotypes. I am interested in the complexities of the human condition — our quirks and fears, our moments of loneliness and joy, our ways of moving, identifying and representing ourselves — and inspired by the child’s world of play, where reality readily gives way to, and confuses with, imagination.