“The artist whose life is similar in many ways to that of a child, can often realize the inner sound of things more easily than anyone else”.

– Vasily Kandinsky

In 1991 I decided to make a slide show presentation of children’s art which was set to three selections of music and interspersed with two interviews. The interviews captured my then six year old daughter Jocelin who left us with these pearls:

“When you make a picture it’s in your mind and it comes from your mind and it tells your hands. Your hands think about it. And they tell your mind what their answer is. If it’s “NO”, then the mind has to think about another thing that the hands might like. If the hand says “YES”, then the hands will take a piece of paper and a pencil and start drawing something. And when they’re done, they’ll be coloring it in and maybe using some shadow and detail and then when you look at it you’ll think “Well that’s a nice picture, I’m glad I made it”.

I also recorded my eight year old son Gabriel.

Fast forward to 2011 and Gabriel has found a new use for the wonderful ideas he expressed in our home-made production. You can hear his young voice in the concluding section of “The Future of Art”,  a video by KS12 which was created at Berlin’s Transmediale 2011.