Childhood as an unfinished sentence. The viewer becomes the author of the boy’s tragedy or hope. 3. TBW = “To Be Watched” (Surveillance & innocence)
The boy as subject and object. Vulnerability as aesthetic. Final short proposal for a gallery text panel: gallery tbw boy (2026) The boy is not a specific person. He is a placeholder — for memory, for narrative, for the viewer’s own unfinished childhood. TBW stands for what you bring to it: to be written, the boy who, to be watched. Enter the gallery. Complete the sentence.
The boy exists only as potential. The audience writes him into being — or leaves him forever waiting. 2. TBW = “The Boy Who…” (Archetypal fragment)
