#46 Montessori
This is from a very old archive. In the early 50’s I drew these at the Montessori school I was at. Here is what I wrote a four years ago when I shared this with some people:
“I went to a Montessori school for the first three years or so of my schooling. We could choose activities. I drew circles and painted them yellow. Thousands of them. Obsessional. My mother thought they were wonderful and kept them in a box! I don’t think I did it to please her though. I loved doing it. This is what they looked like.”
Of course the word Thousands stands out for me as I read this.
[...] My attention to the process is because I am fascinated by where these images come from. It is a case of the medium being the muse, but that is not all! Kate pointed out the connection with my childhood yellow circle. That connection is there! [...]
[...] One more circle. I could not have done this at the time I did those circles at the Montessori school. They had to be yellow, my self imposed discipline, even now it feels strange to do a blue one. I wanted to contrast blue with the colours I have been using, thinking of colour, exploring the shade of blue. It looks how I want it on my screen, and I will print it to look right too. Yuri Gagarin first circled the earth. ‘It’s blue,’ the Russian cosmonaught reported back to earth, on his crackly radio. ‘An intense blue.’ [...]