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Posted on 2021-12-02<\/a> by michael<\/a>3<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m reflecting on the experience last night at the Collaborative Dialogue Event (ECPN\u2019s put on). The story of Kozue especially on the little children\u2019s grip of \u2018things\u2019 they bring to the day care in her experience. She lists several things they bring, and small stones is one of them. Tonight, I\u2019m thinking, that if I was a child again, and had the choice, I would have brought a small pencil (or like stylo-instrument, be it a crayon, pastel, pen). I have had a fettish for these objects since I can remember, and it is not surprising my desk and art studio are cluttered with these materials (evocative objects\u2013so I decided to scan my gripping the pencil as if that is my child\u2019s hand at a toddler age)- I think of adults or older peers prying against the will of the child in many instances, even my own, where something inside one\u2019s hand is forcibly removed because the child doesn\u2019t want to give it up. That was part of Kozue\u2019s realization of having a \u201crelationship with the stone\u201d which she has shared on a prior blog post here and she shared her written story at the Event last night online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, what takes this all further in my query, is not that I am a \u2018collector\u2019 of such stylo-like things and love what they can do in terms of their marking the world, the sidewalk, the blackboard, the whiteboard, the paper, etc. but I have on several occasions made paintings in experimental series where I draw, color, and paint realistically a stylo object, a pencil crayon, a pastel, a felt-tipped child\u2019s marker. In fact in the current show at NIA starting this Sat.-Sun. (for the Nanaimo Artwalk) you\u2019ll see at least two of my paintings where I included such an object. Okay, that\u2019s interesting enough. But what really came out tonight, from the unconscious to conscious, was that \u201cI am a pencil crayon.\u201d Yeah, all those objects truly are \u201cme\u201d and they are what and how I want to be handled in the world\u2013artistically, as I and many of us would handle a pencil crayon (or any stylo objective I\u2019ve mentioned above). Wow! There\u2019s a lot there to mine. But, let\u2019s also not forget the stones, as a theme for this artist residency and Kozue\u2019s story, in hand\u2013and, now in her son\u2019s hand. As she told us last night that her son \u201ctook the stone\u201d \u2013her stone. What part of her did he take, and apparently has still hidden, even from his mom?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hand-Gripping Small Pencil by R. Michael Fisher (c) 2021 \u2013 photo from scanner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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