Serendipity

Sometimes children come to the studio and actually do not want

to paint. This particular young artist found his

creative outlet with the box of tubes. Each day that he comes

to work , he always goes to the basket full of tubes and makes

something. Telescopes and binoculars are the favorite.

This last week he painted with enthusiasm and then went

to the basket. He carefully chose his tubes,lining them

up so that they touched. He finally made an oval. He

said that it was some kind of train. He lay down next to it

and we saw how long he was. The others came over,too see

their length. It was a short period of time that this all happened in.

I wanted to save what he had created, but realized that it was the process

and not the product that mattered.