Disturbed
Disturbed is the seventh painting in The Whole World Is Watching. Curious about the noise around her, the figure listens through the protective language of the series and encounters disturbing lies. She watches, questions and compares what she is told with what she can see for herself.
2026 · Oil on canvas
24 × 24 × 1.5 in (61 × 61 × 3.8 cm)
Signed · Unframed
Certificate of originality included
Details in this painting
- Blue eyes
- Innocence and witness. She is paying attention, watching what is happening and questioning what she is being told.
- Goggles
- Protection. The protective visual language of the series remains in place even as she looks directly outward.
- Headphones
- Shielding. They remain an attempted layer of protection from the noise around her; her curiosity is what draws her attention toward it.
- Green mark
- Armor and protest. The green element continues the series’ recurring language of protection and resistance.
- Red mark
- What gets through. Disturbing messages, noise and falsehoods can still reach a child despite attempts at protection.
By Fury, the direction of The Whole World Is Watching had become more deliberate. Disturbed continues that shift.
She is curious about the noise around her. The headphones remain part of the series’ protective armor — an attempted shield between childhood innocence and the world around it — but curiosity draws her attention outward.
What reaches her are disturbing lies.
Her expression is not passive. She is listening, watching and questioning. Something does not add up. She is comparing what she is being told with what she can see for herself.
The blue eyes remain the series’ sign of innocence and witness. The goggles and headphones remain protection. The green mark remains armor and protest. The red mark represents what still gets through despite that protection: disturbing messages, noise and falsehoods that reach a child even when adults try to shield them.
She is paying attention.
An ongoing protest series by Essebes about innocence, witness and the responsibility to protect children.
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