That's what an education can do for you. Sure, maybe he would have made that spatial connection without montessori, but I sort of doubt it. He was maybe 4.
Flash forward almost 20 years ;-) and here I am, making connections that would never have happened if I didn't toss it all in to go to art school.
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I would have just enjoyed the image of this little guy in the pirate getup my sister and I cobbled together by his request — that is, if I hadn't spent countless hours taking notes in art-historical slide lectures.
Now I don't see this as a quick snapshot; it's an image full of unintended reference to Italian surrealist painter Chirico. The bland, looming institutional architecture just enhances the diminuitive child who patiently stands for the photo before the party.
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I'm maybe missing the point when I start to view a snappy Halloween pic as a study in the juxtaposition between blissful unawareness and relentlessly banal societal constructs.
Worse, I'm pretty sure I've become a pompous ass.