Childhood #372

Prompt: A massive vintage lens with iris petals made of crystallized memories, each petal showing a different distorted childhood moment, dark tendrils reaching from the aperture toward a small toy carousel. Creative Process: Memories spun like cotton candy in that eye, a massive observatory of childhood dreams gone wrong. the carousel kept turning while three figures stood transfixed, watching their youth dissolve into the cornea's abyss. wanted to capture that moment when nostalgia becomes a predator, when the merry-go-round of time transforms into a trap inside an all-seeing void..