The Artist

Sojo is a very unique little girl  She never ceases to amaze me with her creativity and little mind that weaves in   and out of being sporty with her soccer and baseball and on to being creative with art and simply having fun with games on her IPad or playing with her friends.

Last summer, we gave her a book titled "My Little Orsay".  It is a book geared to children her age and takes several pieces of art, in which the goal is to go to the Musee d'Orsay in Paris and find these pieces.  And that we did.  It was so much fun to see this Musee in a much different way than we did some 17 or so years ago when we first visited it.  We stood in line with the knowledge that we would be seeing it through Sojo's eyes.  So, we each set out to find the pieces of art.  The one I found was the "red dog" by Paul Gauguin.  It is actually titled, Arearea,   was painted in 1891 in Tahiti and I guess not well received. We certainly liked it though.   It is said that it represents where dream and reality coexist.  I think that is a good way to express oneself through art.

As Sojo would walk from room to room with us finding each piece along the way, she would often find a chair and sit down; taking out her sketch pad and doing some drawing of her own.

  

    

The finished product...a family portrait of us all in front of the Eiffel Tower.  Note the bird...which was in the original photo that she used as her muse. 

It was one of those days that left an imprint on my heart that will forever remain and bless me at every thought it brings.