Thursday, June 25, 2020

Streetable #5

When I was in third grade, 
I told my fellow students 
that the woman who invented math 
had been killed in a fire. 
It was a good thing, I said, 
because she was putting 
the finishing touches 
on something even worse than math, 
something the schools 
were aching to get their hands on.

Michael Cadnum, Edge



Sharing Things You Found Out Only a Short Time Ago Yourself
4 x 6" postcard; acrylic and collage
abstract
2020


basic idea

8 comments:

carol edan said...

Wish they knew about that "joy" when I was in third grade!
I still have learning blocks in math and spelling! Thank you Miss Greenleaf!

dotty seiter: now playing said...

Oh, Carol, so sorry to hear that joy was not front and center for you in third grade. But, oh, the joy you experience and offer through your painting now!

Simone said...

Dear Dotty,
This is a truly wonderful way to combine your love for language and art!

Lola (Jen Jovan) said...

Something worse than math? ha ha! I can only imagine your transformed students slack-jawed at the transformation your teaching inspires...xo

dotty seiter: now playing said...

Simone, thank you! I am having such fun with this series, playing around to get the art, the painting title, and the prose poem interacting with each other in a way that pleases me.

dotty seiter: now playing said...

Thanks, Jen. Indeed, something worse than math! I LOVE the moments of transformation that pop up during my tutorial sessions—I never know when those moments will take place, and I never know which of us will be the teacher, which the student.

Sheila said...

LOVE this Dotty :)

dotty seiter: now playing said...

Thanks, friend. I was so stumped by this start when I went to bring it to some kind of resolution, and the collage 'aphorism' felt uncomfortably trite or saccharine until I gave it a little edge and counterbalance with its title and prose poem accessory.

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