Artist's Statement

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This project is dedicated to the children who never had the chance to grow up because they were abused, ignored or failed by the very people and systems meant to protect them.
I draw these children not as statistics or stories on the news, but as human beings. As individuals. As lives that mattered. Through my art, I try to give something back to them—some presence, some light, some dignity that was stolen too soon. I know what it’s like to be unseen. I know the silence of being hurt and misunderstood. And I also know the pain of feeling too deeply in a world that often prefers to look away.
I am autistic, and I carry the weight of my own past, but I have chosen to turn it into something that can speak—for those who no longer can.
This project is not comfortable. It’s not meant to be. It is meant to remind us that child abuse is still happening, every day, often behind closed doors that never get opened. Too many children fall through the cracks. Too many are disbelieved, dismissed or abandoned by systems that are overwhelmed or blind.
Art is how I grieve. It’s how I protest. It’s how I remember. I hope this work makes you stop. I hope it makes you feel something. And most of all, I hope it makes you act—even in some small way. Because every child deserves safety. Every child deserves to be seen. And it should never take a tragedy for the world to care.