In a 2012 talk at AIGA, Zach Lieberman, cofounder of the School for Poetic Computation, read the book his stepdaughter River made when she was six year old, called I Am Art. It is one of the most astonishing and rhapsodic proclamations of art-making we’ve seen and totally nails the exhilaration it brings. Transcription below.
(The foot prints choreographer Trish Brown made on paper on in a series of lithographs called Compass seem a fitting image that echoes that feeling…)
River the Artist




Art is like you feel free You
feel like you can do anithing
and you no [know] what to draw
and if you dont you look
at you You are the one
and you heve your
own imagination
and maybe in your
imagination you
will see lins [lines] and
sxwars [squares] and in
thos sxwars and linsyou will see
art
and that art is
amazing and you
are to.
Art Art Art Art
Art I am Art
Art food is art
art avrithing is
art art art art
art art art
art art art
art art art art
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