Week 15

Images this week: Julia is learning to make choices.

Julia (7) is very shy, and only communicated with me by whispering via Szilvia, never addressed me directly. She made a painting, which we scanned it into the computer. Then we collaboratively played with the following actions: copy/paste elements, change size, change colour. I gave her each time two options to choose from. In the beginning she did not know what to choose, possibly because she is not used to having choices in life. Soon however she got used to the idea of having options and determined her choice before I could finish my question. As she left through the main gate (in the safety of neutral territory), she suddenly addressed me directly, with great confidence. Later I heard from Szilvia (the pedagogue who accompanies the kids to the studio and acts as a translator) That Julia talked non-stop about me after they left. She wanted to come and live here to keep me company (I must surely be lonely and scared, living by myself). She would cry for me, she said (a sign of the ability to empathise, she probably knows what it is like).

29/1 Monday
All is well, bridge still standing.

Original painting.

30/1 Tuesday
All is well, bridge still standing.

Adding clouds.

31/1 Wednesday
All is well, bridge still standing.

Adding houses.

1/2 Thursday
All is well, bridge still standing.

More houses this time on clouds.

2/2 Friday
All is well, bridge still standing.

Drawing of a flower.

3/2 Saturday
All is well, bridge still standing.

More flowers.

4/2 Sunday
All is well, bridge still standing.

The end result.