In The Playroom With The Meticulous Jonathan Hobin

“The playroom is a metaphor for the impossibility a protective space from the world,” Hobin says. “It’s a metaphor for all the things that kids experience in the world, and how it’s all in their heads. This is an exaggeration how it might come out.”
Kids know these dark things, even if they haven’t been taught them or discussed them with adults, he says, and he provides a lucid example. “No kid needs to be shown how to hold a handgun, they all just know, they pick it up and they know. . . It never needs explanation.”
“People always ask me if I’m setting out to shock people, and I’m not. I think the shock comes from people being forced to acknowledge that kids experience these events, or are witness to them,” he says. “All I’m doing is reminding people that that’s the reality. If anything, I’m doing it in a more fun and playful way, albeit a little bit dark.”