Cubism is Alive and Well and Wants a Juice Box

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“Look, it’s a train,” Athena explains, and damned if it isn’t. The question is whether it’s a train because she intended it to be a train, of if it’s a train because she was just doodling and that’s the closest actual object to what she’s doodled. I’d ask her, but that seems like an imposition on the creative process, if you ask me.

Comments

  1. That is *definitely* a train.

  2. Elizabeth Bear says:

    I’m with Chris. That’s a train with intent.

    Try her on chinese calligraphy brushes. Even _I_ can paint bamboo with those things.

  3. Paul says:

    I thought it was a sphinx… or a station wagon beside a no parking sign under a fluffy white clou- Oh, I see the train!

  4. mythago says:

    She seems to be in her Red Period.

  5. That’s a train. With a giant shovel attached to the top, of course.

  6. Kafkaesquí says:

    Is there a dog on the train? I don’t like art unless it has a dog in it.

  7. John Scalzi says:

    Catharine Rain writes:

    “That’s a train. With a giant shovel attached to the top, of course.”

    I saw that as the smoke coming out. But a shovel is good, too.

  8. monica netelus says:

    that’s a train, there is no doubt about it, no way she could of doodled something so close to a train

  9. Justin Anderson says:

    “Cubism is Alive and Well and Wants a Juice Box”

    Hee. That’s the funniest thing I’ve read all day. Okay, it’s only 10.45 in the morning, but still….

    Personally, I think it’s a Transformer midway between its train and Tyrannosaurus Rex forms.

  10. Austin K says:

    I def. see the train in that picture!!!
    She is an Artist!!!! She will get payed the big ones someday!

  11. Wil Mosher says:

    Catharine Rain writes:

    “That’s a train. With a giant shovel attached to the top, of course.”

    John Scalzi replies:

    “I saw that as the smoke coming out. But a shovel is good, too.”

    I thought Athena did a marvelous job of capturing the sonic impact of the steam whistle as the train approached the station!

  12. Tripp says:

    Nice, but my seven year old did the same thing and exclaimed “This is *not* a train.”

    Very deep. Very very deep.

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