Blue. That's Spencer's favorite color lately. It's also the color he chose as the basis of his painting. At first he swirled the paint in a spiral which morphed into a cello and then the world, Spencer explained to me. Next he carefully unscrewed the top to the white paint jar and painted a white swatch next to the world that he told me was a statue. On top of the statue, he used bold strokes of red, birds he described. "See the wings Mommy."
Next came purple, followed by orange and turquoise, more statues, Spencer explained, statues like the Terra Cotta Warriors we saw this past August. The green paint represents the broken pieces he saw in the exhibit as do the yellow and the brown. "Why were they broken?" he wanted to know. I was amazed that these questions were percolating in his mind for so many months and wondered why he thought to ask them now. It was the first time Spencer had ever described his artistic process in such vivid detail, a moment of creation that was beautiful to watch and one that I will always treasure.
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