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SIMPLY SIMPLE

1 +++REINHARD capNOTE

2 +++MAKIE col wool collar

3 +++CAMPER wabi

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recycle paper plates and bowls from Japan

Wooden birdhead cup by Nature design

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Iza has a good sense of humor ...

we think she might love this companion - charlie chaplin.

Recently, we share a delight of chaplin's city lights (1931) with her.

She enjoys.

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MUSEUM DAYS

Reading Feian's Misbehaved girls in the Art Museum, I recall some ... threatening moments when iza got NATURAL HIGH in large space like galleries and museums ...

Usually, in these places, photography is not allowed.

More often, I didn't have time to focus my lens ... I needed to guard the exhibits from being crashed, smashed, and turned into trash.

Believing that we do not have many related images, still, I try to dig into my library ... eventually I found this.

Nothing vigorous, but an encounter of 2 little children at Richard Hutten Exhibition in Kunsthal, Rotterdam, June 2007.

A blank space filled with beautiful echoes.

At that time, Iza was 4.

So glad to have this blog space.

Otherwise I would never be able to see this again and again and again.

I've seen this more than 20 times after I uploaded it.

But not ONCE after I took it, and before this post.

We often take stills, not videos.

Even, we do not have a proper video camera ...

Motions once captured, they will remain as a file in our computer library FOREVER ...

We don't have time to produce any printouts,

therefore iza has a BLANK printout photo album ...

and,

it's not possible for us to browse all images with her ...

there are toooooo many ...

I then have this blog,

to force myself

to post IMMEDIATELY after every shot.

Still, I have photos taken in Feb not yet edit ...

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BEIJING 13

Here's the LAST section of the Beijing trip in Summer...
the Kid's Republic in Beijing.
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There are many nicely illustrated books in China.

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These days, I rush and dash.

I wish I could sit down and response to my dear friends who left comments on my former posts ...

When i'm thinking on Yoli's question,

"Do you think she will be a scientist or an artist? Or both?"

all those nice people who have been guiding iza through her growing path appear in my mind, one by one ...

For those who have been with iza for more than 2-3 years may well understand her "drama" through the years ...

memories flash back ...

some moments still strike me ...

When she made these statements when she was 3-4,

" The faster it goes, the slower it becomes.

The slower it goes, the faster it becomes."

and,

"Lower is better!"

I think she will be a scientist.

When she asked me,

"Mommy, do you know how to see with your brain?"

and

"...If all the people died, there won't be time anymore..."

and,

"Mama, can an umbrella be a fossil?"
"Can sugar be fossil?"
"Can non-living things be fossils?"

I believe she will be a good thinker.

When we discovered her acute sense on colors,

we know this might be an advantage to her if she wants to be an artist or designer.

With all difficulties on her start of learning music,

we would not imagine that she could astonish her flute teacher by pointing out his mistakes with her highly sensitive aural ability.

This might explain why she refused to play certain music by just looking at the notes (without playing), she simply said that it would not sound good.

Apart from piano, violin and flute, she wants to learn cello, harp, oboe, trumpet ...

I wonder she could be a conductor.

Maybe, it is the fun as being a mother. Always, like a detective, tracing for hints and clues, resolving "riddles", desperate to know not what's happened, but what will happen ...

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CHILDREN ARE NATURAL BORN ARTISTS

This is so true.

Not only they are born with a pure and clear-hearted instinct on aesthetics and artistic expressions,

they are also natural born scientist.

They observe and learn from experiments and explorations.

Known facts, to them, are of least significance.

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Mustard and cyan,

yellow and blue,

colors resonate.

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IMPRESSION 2

Hong Kong - scaffolding

"... it is not half so important to know as to feel..."

Rachel Carson's words keep whirling in my head.

and,

these days,

these words,

just come straight into my heart ...

"... three qualities are essential if the relationship with the child is to be alive and, in the true sense... The first is imagination, which transforms the intellectual content of one's teaching into a language of experience that speaks directly to the child's soul; the second is courage for the truth of world realities; and the third is a feeling of responsibility toward what is truly human in the children entrusted to our care."

Rudolf Steiner

to feel and to enliven imagination ...

to keep alive a child's inborn sense of wonder...

to truly serve our darling child...

reflections on experiencing anew daily life...

I come to recollect some fragments,

record some unrelated impressions...

It is what this IMPRESSION series is about ...

a visual note on a non-linear process of restoring of my paralyzed senses.

Impressions ...

they are pictorial feelings in my mind.