Sharon Lockhart

Sharon Lockhart is a Massachusetts born film and instalation artist.

Lockhart's video Podworka is based in Poland focusing on the kids that live in the court yards of Lodz.
These children live in the apartment blocks near the old abandoned house, but these houses are the only playground for the children. The positive thing about this is it keeps the children so where safe, away from traffic and all the city's business. Its fascination to look at this 'playground' and compare it to that of an American playground, and watch how these children use the storage units and metal armatures become Jungle Gyms, sandboxes and soccer fields in the children's eyes.

http://www.lockhartstudio.com/index.php?/films/podworka/ this is the link for the video piece that I was looking at and described above. I really enjoyed looking at the video as something seems to be happening at all times in it. The children seem to follow each other in and out of the frame. Its interesting how the frame doesn't change and how the real subjects - the children- enter and exit it.