" Human Child "

40 x 30 cm
Oil on Canvas
Year : 2018.

...And then, there are those who willingly leave with them, and they never return...

"Otherworld" or "Fae" children, known as "changelings" are often mentioned in Celtic folklore and legends.
The Sidhe or Tuatha De Danann of the olden times were known to take chosen mortals (often peculiar children, fine-looking young men and maidens.) They would take human beings whom they loved, and were able to confer upon them fairy immortality. Mortals, did they will it, could live in the world of the Sidhe for ever, and would often pine away if they were forcingly taken back to the human world...