Toys is a series of interactive sculptural works that examines childhood through play, protection, and loss. Using second hand toys, each piece carries traces of affection, neglect, and use. I intervene by hammering, burning, unraveling, and shattering, then reconstruct with domestic crafts such as sewing, crochet, and weaving. These actions expose and reframe the toys’ narratives: breaking fractures innocence, rebuilding forces adulthood. The sculptures are interdependen; their meanings arise through proximity, contrast, and dialogue, forming a constellation that resists solitary reading. Rooted in personal memory, the series traces shifts in Western childhood from medieval invisibility to Industrial labor to twentieth century protection, and asks what childhood becomes amid Wi Fi, iPads, and artificial intelligence. Created as part of the Mourning Morning installation at the Provenzano Gallery on the Hobart and William Smith campus, the works choreograph object, space, and viewer into tense intimacy and invite reflection on nostalgia, vulnerability, and the rites that shape growing up.