we miss you magic land!

Overview

I'm gonna go slightly off topic for a moment: the following subject consists of images that have recently made their way onto my desktop wallpaper. Only the best of the best pictures have earned the right to be burned into my retinas when lappy's on standby and the winner for the last couple of months has been the intricate and delightful we miss you magic land! teaser image. If this 1024 x 768 pixel photo is anything to go by, the we miss you magic land! exhibition will be all my childhood dreams come true.

It's no secret that the Children's Art Centre installations at GoMA are equally as interactive and entertaining for big kids as they are for regular-sized ones. we miss you magic land! is no exception. The exhibition, by Perth artistic duo Pip & Pop, is a vibrant, immersive environment for “children and families” (pfft!) and draws on children's stories, creation myths (yup!) and Buddhist ideologies, as well as video games and folktales. The large-scale, fairy floss-esque fantasy worlds are made using cake-decorating tools and heaps of layers of sugar, glitter, clay and mirrors. They look so good you’ll want to eat them.

Walk the magical pathways and squeeze into peepholes to parallel worlds – there'll be a magical forest of odd flowers, vines, mushrooms and animals on the other side.

If this sounds like the best thing you have ever heard, you're probably right. We missed you magic land, like candy, and it's time you came to GoMA for three months of fluffy bliss.