It’s fun to watch a little one being creative. The progression of individual creative steps leading to surprise discoveries without a particular goal in sight. First the inspiration – treasures and oddities in a box of collected pieces. Assortment of drift wood, bagful of semi-precious stones… and organising them all neatly in rows like the most precious display, echoed with dozen repeated questions of “What is this?!?” And then the mixing of colours and the tactile feel of them being way more interesting and appealing than painting any picture at all. What freedom. Some morning in the atelier I think I should maybe forget any productive results and just mix paint, with all my concentration and for a good two hours. Just for the fun of it. (May08)