Are you More Artistic than a 1rst Grader?

If I try to imagine God’s essence, and think, for example, of the infiniteness of time, I get lost in a mixture of dismay and excitement. I sense the order and harmony that suggest intelligence, and I discover, with a slight shiver, that my own language becomes evangelical. –Toni Morrison, an excerpt from Antonio Monda’s Do you Believe? Conversations on God and Religion.

Imagine a blue world with spaceships that look like the perfect big bubble, and time machines just as cute and simple, and smiling children who travel through time in both these spheres. Imagine them moving and loving a world void of past, future and present.

A first grade student in my daughter’s school created this world in a visual arts piece that is displayed alongside seventeen other Reflections art entries from our school (including Selah’s photography) at the Hudgens Children Arts Museum in Suwanee, GA. He made this picture with mix media: crayon, pen, marker, and watercolor crayon. It is one of the purest and sweetest things I’ve ever seen.

Experiencing this art reminded me of three important truths about what a master’s artist possesses:

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