My lovely readers,
I am currently informing you from Sahebe Kizilay summer camp that ART is for all!
I am publicly admitting that I have been for many many many years among those people who have that psychological disorder called AOF, “Afraid Of Art”! The usual symptoms are:
a) tendency to skip activities that include the word “imagination”
b) tendency of automatic self-underestimation when you hear the “Art” word.
c) Denial to visit “art exhibitions”.
Though, at this long day in this summer camp, I became a little bit more familiar with my art phobias. Under the cool shadow of the trees a small art workshop for children took place as a continuity of the Kucuk Kara Balik workshop. Children had to imagine the effects of the fairy tale on them and paint something that would depict their thoughts about it.
And then suddenly, there was it! I so wanted to paint something and participate!
In the world of adults, there is no place for art. We have created a world where our imagination and our undefined desires cannot be expressed without a cost. And it is like we judge art everyday and we find it guilty.
That is why, through the eyes of our childhood we can revive the way we choose to perceive art. We just need to imagine our little selves, full of energy and simplicity, to realize that our fear of art was never really ours. It was more of a creation of the society we are living in, that judges and filters all our innate imagination just to keep us within the colourless misery of its strict rules.
So, close your eyes, take a pen, remember your 10 years old self and start painting, just like our friends above did!
Art is for all!
the result of children's imagination on Kucuk Kara Balik
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