ARTCHALLENGE #21 entry

This is an entry for this contest hosted by @aksinya and judged by @snooway.
You can check other contributions with the #artchallenge tag.

This paint represents the innocence and conflicts of the childhood.
There are 2 main things (among other) that characterizes most young child :

• their natural capacity to be in their imagination
• their will/need of care from others and especially their need of their parents' or their bigger brother/sister's attention.

Here, we can see this child is in his imagination since he is disguised, wearing a mask. He is sitting alone in a floating tree. We can see a big moon on the background which is the symbol of imagination/dreams.

Also, we can see the child is lonely and fishing for a heart i.e fishing for love and attention of his relatives.
Is the fishing going well ? Does this child get all the attention it needs ?

In the tree, we can see an opened door which could be a nest, the parent's house for the child. He seemed to have stepped out of it so maybe he feels alone in its imagination and he is disappointed that nobody actually sees him ?
Maybe he is looking for a partner to play with him in his world.