This blog is dedicated to sharing the concept that our hands are essential to learning- that we engage the world and its wonders, sensing and creating primarily through the agency of our hands. We abandon our children to education in boredom and intellectual escapism by failing to engage their hands in learning and making.
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
A old friend of mine, George Lundeen is a sculptor noted for his life-size work in bronze. He sent me a photo of himself with a piece of his current work. George used to be much taller. Gravity has its effect on those of us who have been around awhile and George lives in the mountains of Colorado where the effects are horrendous. Note the custom made chair in the lower left hand corner, specially made for those of us in our shrinking years. And then think how it must feel to create something so much larger than yourself.
I know all about that shrinkage. And I was never all that tall to begin with...
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