Childs regards a painting as, ”an idea which is either on its way to being finalized or on its way to being halfway destroyed.” Like the actual buildings and either construction or demolition sites in his photographs each painting or drawing, in either acrylic on canvas or graphite on paper, looks as if it is in the process of changing. Childs structures these spaces by painting and repainting contrasting and harmonizing shapes and colors into pseudo-cityscapes that never quite settle into a coherent space. He accentuates this visual tension by coupling opposites, biomorphic with geometric or irrational with rational, or the built with the un-built. The viewer’s eye is pushed and pulled into endlessly complicated spaces…never pausing for long…just like life in the hustle and bustle of urban living.