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Katya Reimann : 2020

Katya has been telling stories, building worlds, and creating the art to go with them for most of her life.  

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One should *never* mock one's progeny...

4/23/2012

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...and yet there are always exceptions to the rule.
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Don't get me wrong.  I do love this thing. 

But... there is only one possible thought, looking at this piece of sculpture:

"It's a dead turtle.  Right?"  (perhaps with the mental follow-up:  "What can possibly have inspired the fabrication of a candy-dish shaped like a dead turtle?"

I'm not a particularly sentimental parent, and, really, curbing the impulse to mock this thing is frankly beyond me.  My daughter's injured outrage, as viewer after viewer makes this "wrong" interpretation only intensifies the urge to laugh.

(It's supposed to be a rendition of a live hedgehog, curled, ah... cutely on its back)

But--I do love this thing.  There's only a narrow space of time when one can receive a gift like this from one's progeny, proffered in all earnestness. 

Until it gets knocked over and loses one of those spindly rigor mortis legs, it's a keeper.
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Grandpa Will link
4/25/2012 11:01:37 pm

If it's hedgehog, why isn't it curled up? When they go 'defensive'; as I remember things, they're said to curl up, almost like a doughnut, in such a way the little spikes all face 'out': S'posed to fake out the predator.

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Katya
4/28/2012 12:35:43 pm

Grandpa--don't you get it? It's SUPPOSED to look cutely curled up. It just... didn't succeed in looking curled up.

--Katya

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Grandpa Will link
4/28/2012 10:38:25 pm

No, I guess I don't. My capacity to 'supportively suppose' seems to have become compromised. It still looks to me like a dead turtle. How's about another try, mebbe after 'a look' at a curled-into-positon one? I suspect a difficulty may be advanced by the coflict btw. the nature of wet clay, and the invention, in that material, of something to evoke the texture of the prickles. Love the gesture of their trying. WR

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