Duck & Cover

Schoony Series 1

“Every child knows this position. You learn it at school, you practice it like it’s normal, get down, cover your head, make yourself small. Duck & Cover is about that instinct, and how horrifying it is that children have to carry it. I rendered the whole figure in one unbroken color so there’s nowhere for the eye to go except the pose itself. No face, no identity, just the body doing the only thing it knows to do. That’s the reality for too many children in the world.” - Schoony