The link between habitat loss and the decline of animal species of the planet is well documented. There have been many mass extinctions and new species created through the evolutionary process over the millennia. Less well documented though is the connection between the loss of human life and loss of Fairies in the world.

Ontologically the idea of the existence of fairies is a problem for us, a question of faith or a system of belief. During childhood we are far closer to this belief only to find it is lost in the hyper-reality of our postmodern adult worlds. If the collective mind was able to accept the existence of Fairies as a truth piercing this hyper-reality, it might be possible to create a suitable environment to support them effectively.

The destruction of imagination through a barrage of imagery in our contemporary culture has had a devastating effect on our ability to evoke these innocent childhood desires, and the horrors of recent events may mean that this ability is lost to humanity forever.

Just as it took close to two thousand years to chance upon the Rosetta Stone to unlock the key to understanding Egyptian hieroglyphics, and Crick and Watson’s insights into understanding our own genetic code, we must try to decipher the hidden meaning of Fairies. How many complex ecosystems of creatures that do not fully exist in our realm must be lost before we learn to appreciate the richness they bring with their diversity? Just because we have no proof of something, that does not mean it cannot exist. Can our acceptance of these possible truths have a beneficial or negative impact on us as human subjects?

This show hopes to consider the dichotomy between the daily barrage of horrors which we can’t turn away from and an understanding of childhood innocence, what it meant for us and what it now means – should we mourn its loss or celebrate our perceived rationality. Demonstrating the historical losses of the fairy populations in arenas where great human tragedies occurred cannot help but force us to consider the expanses of land and creatures which existed in the minds of those who also perished.