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