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Daydream believer…

I have a son.  His name is Dash… okay, his name is not REALLY Dash, but for the purposes of this blog and to his many fans, he is the artist formerly known as Master Incredible.

My son is a gorgeous thing (and yes, I am an unashamedly biased Mum) he is skinny and sensitive, yet all testosterone and wrestling-with-other-little-boys.  He has the longest fingers I have ever seen, and adores the piano. Yet he can crack a whip like a little demon and wants to play for the Wallabies more than anything in the whole wide world.

He’s also a dreamer.  Seriously, the kid lives in a bubble.  A daydreaming, chat-to-himself kind of alternate universe.  It’s sweet, as long as you aren’t trying to get him to do homework, or concentrate on pretty much ANYTHING.  And as much as I’d love to go all military on him and demand he get that whole routine thing happening, I suspect he gets his little dose of dizziness from me.

The kid can find twenty different shapes in a cloud.  (No, seriously.  He’ll name and explain as you gaze upward and what is clearly an everyday whisp of atmosphere.)

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This shot was taken as we chatted with friends during smoko on a paddock drive over the school holidays.  Dash was catching tadpoles. Or something.  I’m not sure, as I was focussing the camera on those incredible fingers of his… we really are a pair, aren’t we?

I bought him a set of modelling clay at the supermarket the day after.  Within a couple of minutes of opening it, he’d created this:

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A magpie.

I was mesmerised. The creation was miniscule but detailed… it was the eyes, I think, that really got me.  No-one has ever shown him how to draw or create birds’ eyes. That is one cool wall-eyed cartoon-like magpie.

I don’t know what he’s going to be, this first-born of mine.

But I suspect ‘arty-farty’ might be in the title there somewhere..

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