A Day In the Woods

A Day in the Woods: a requiem for a lost childhood

A Day in the Woods consists of twenty childern’s heads encased in tins. The tins come from all over the world and are used to send spices, herbs and tea to elsewhere. This is a total installation, by which Caroline wants to indicate that each child is trapped behind its own window, locked in its own can and its own background.

The installation can be seen as a requiem for all those children who find themselves together far away from their homeland, go to school and adapt to a different environment. They leave behind their own country in which hunger, war or violence prevailed, hoping for a better future. But with that move alianates them from their original culture: where are the smells, the landscape and the forests they grew up in during their childhood?