While watching my 3 year old granddaughter pick out fabrics, squealing with delight, when a certain one excited her, I realized that this is art. The way colors, designs, and how they go together, make you feel.
It is about the feeling. Or at least this is how I do it. What ever excites me is what I play with.
She is funny, being so young and knowing what she loves. My daughter and I would try and move her in a direction of fabrics, that may co-exist together in harmony and she refuses to be led. She knows what she feels and will not be swayed differently.
I love her knowing what she loves!
And, she has to be the one to place her art down. We can't 'suggest' a better placement, she likes how it looks to her. Our opinions just simply do not matter to her. It is her Art.
What she has shown me, is what I have suspected, that to be a true artist is to find the most pleasure in the creative part.
Doing art is a feeling.
It is to dance with the unknown.
To be surprised in what colors or designs make you feel alive.
She and I both love what we love and express it loudly!
And, it matters not if they are 'supposed' to go together or not - it works for us, it makes us come alive.
Her squeals and excitement are so self-empowering.
I love her absolute knowing.
Nothing can change how she feels.
What a great inner sense of Self she has at 3.
Perhaps we all did.
Until, we start to focus more on the outside than the inside.
I am hopeful that if she continues with Art, she will build a center core that the outside will have a hard time bending.
I can see why Artists are feared, for they typically can't be led. They have a strong sense of self and are unapologetic.
We know our selves better by doing Art.
This just be a 3 year old phase she is going through - however, we have a few fun pieces to remember her little hands creating excitement with Art!
Her eyes sees magic in her art!
