whiteness

by Jack (4.6 years old)

What are you drawing, Jack?

"People."

It looks like they are reaching for something.
What are they doing?

"They are thinking."

About what?

"Nobody knows that."

Then how do you know that they are thinking?

"Because there is only white all around them."

Don't thoughts have colours in them?

"No! Thoughts are only white and you can't really see them.
That's why nobody ever knows what you are thinking."

When everybody is busy thinking together,
does it get even whiter?

"No, it just gets crowded. But you need 8 people
to make a crowded thought."

"We noted, for example, how the perception
of the sound of the crowd is communicated
verbally by the girls with an almost musical
rhythm; how the perfumes perceived by the
girls become unpleasant odors for the boys;
how the girls more strongly feel the need to
differentiate the people of the crowd in their
drawings; how the multiplicatory element seems
stronger in the boys' representations; how both
girls and boys find representative solutions by
using their still fairly simple graphic schemas
in extremely intelligent ways; how the fear of
getting lost is common to both girls and boys,
as are the sensations of uneasiness and excitement;
equally close attention is paid to the way people
are dressed; and also similar between boys and
girls is the alternating perspective of percpetion
(inside, outside, above the crowd)..."
(Vea Vecchi)