Ritratto

stuffed inside each person
are the buttered slices-of-a-life
spread thick
with happy-sad-and-hopeful patéd stress
that sticks it all together,
mixed with peppered pieces
of a world-attached
to any meeting
with another person,
sandwiched inbetween
the jigsawed promise of a puzzle
and its garnished game of (re)assembly,
not at all predictable like billiards,
but
restlessly
unknown
and
dripping
gripping
agitation
like
a
New
York
City
traffic
jam

"When we in Reggio say children have 100 languages,
we mean more than the 100 languages of children,
we also mean the 100 languages of adults, of teachers."
(Loris Malaguzzi)

"It is not merely a passage of materials. It is an
overturned and recreated passage of forms and measures,
of representative intuitions that is contemplated and
emerges during the process. Reality, as always happens
in children's hands, reveals once again its infinite
potential for transformation." (Loris Malaguzzi)