This is a concept piece that I designed on Adobe Illustrator. The pure ignorance of a child is something that I am almost jealous of - they’re ability to relish in oblivion is the thing that makes babies the most untainted beings. However, the power of the media soon sways into action and poisons children from when they can even start crawling.
The depiction of this baby crawling along a machine gun, plays on the idea of being amongst violence and being born into a world of danger. This danger could be seen as symbolic of the media and the injection of negative representations but also very literal through the mania of criminality we see every day.
I chose to keep this illustration as an outline to highlight the fact that you paint your own picture. A baby is born into the world as a blank canvas, how they choose to fill it depends on their upbringing and their own personal life choices, whether that may be positive or negative. I also chose to black out the eyes of the baby to reinforce this idea and keep this as a generic illustration of a baby and a gun, avoiding any specifics.
This is such a clean, simple design yet so effective as a concept.