Kids Toys, Adult Issues explores the tension between childhood innocence and the darker realities of adulthood. By placing nostalgia and play against themes of grief, addiction, mortality, sexuality, and violence, these works lift the veil of innocence and expose the often unmentioned truths that lie beneath, inviting viewers to confront the uneasy overlap between comfort and consequence—gentle, familiar, visceral reminders of what we once held dear and what we’ve since learned to endure.