Day Five: Wednesday: The drawing at the Enchanted Garden

Enchanted Garden is pretty amazing. It has the feel of a learning center that is the result of intelligent fantasy - the breaking point where you say "you know what, I am going to start my on educational institution and it is going to teach the children to become well rounded through a battery of programs and instruction based on artistic practices and play." We were given a tour through their classrooms (which now I remember as being some sort of fantasy landscape with large fabricated trees shooting holographic images of famous leaders giving speeches onto models of endangered ecosystems from around the world.) Upstairs was a dance studio. There were a few interesting canvas possibilities - most notably a tall, thin vertical surface in the transition space next to the front door that had the stairwell that bridged the main classroom and the dance studio upstairs. To be honest, we don't really recall how this drawing came about - but it had its roots in the themes of discovery, exploration, adorableness, and the treasure to be discovered when you dangle a pineapple on a string down a hole. It's safe to say that this drawing successfully covers all of these ideas. We were left to draw in peace and did our best to fashion the most adorable kittens, pots of gold and some select fruits and clawed nautical life.

While we were drawing we were visited by Carolina from the museum. She does her best to get to at least one site a day and just touch bases and see how we are doing. Occasionally she brings us food as we shuffle between location in our little fifteen minute windows for travel. She is solely responsible for having set up such a masterfully well constructed schedule and she has set new benchmarks for organization and clarity. What we wouldn't do to have her as a constant source of organization and inspiration in our lives that so quickly dissolve into spontaneous acts of distracting art making play that can stretch on for days and take us away from our core missions. In other words, it good to have a boss for a week. And we are really glad it is her. P.S. She is one of the funniest people we have ever met.