Circular Reasoning

Watching Carrie make pictures always amuses me.  She loves ARK (her word for art). She tapes her pictures onto the walls, and has created her own little gallery. 

As she was drawing this picture, she kept up a running monologue:

This is a T-rex.  RRRaaaahhh!

And here's Simba.

This is a girl.  Me.  Carrie.

Each thing she draws is some form of a circle. As you can see there are circles within circles and half circles, but most of the shapes are circles.

Okay, here is a balloon for me, Carrie.

Now I draw a road.

And a room.

And a MONSTER!

Oh, the monster is HERE!  (She dashes away.)

Circle beside circle, she draws as she speaks. I feel pretty sure that Carrie sees the thing clearly in her head.  Maybe she is merely mapping the story, rather than actually trying to draw the characters.

I vaguely remember that Pearl went through a similar phase when she was two.

Comments

[cake]

this is fantastic. i love that you share their artwork with us. truly inspirational.

[Doodaddy]

So sweet. Fern's the same way -- every drawing looks about the same, but every drawing is completely unique in her mind.