Treasured "Junque"

I love how people's perspectives change.

We went to visit the Goggleworks, a center for the arts in Reading, last Tuesday. We visit it every Monday when Emily has her dance class there.

This time we went with our "school" to see "Mr. Imagination" and his artwork. While the artist himself was not there -- he'd broken his hand the week before -- we did get a tour of his art displays and make some of our own artwork.

What's unique about "Mr. Imagination's" artwork is that he uses "junque" for all his sculptures. Old brooms, rakes, springs, bottle caps, buttons...you name it, he uses it. It's called "found object art."

And the kids loved it!

Most people know that I tend to be rather a "pack rat" myself. In recent years, I've been desperately trying to change that about myself. It's a long, slow, hard road, made harder by two sweet cherubs trying to save EVERYthing -- including old band-aids and candy wrappers.

Well, you can imagine how excited they were to hear the artists helping out say that they (the kids) should keep lots of cool things so they could make this kind of art.

"See, Mommy?" said Emily. "There is a reason to keep it all."

I sighed. If only she could understand that our house will eventually implode from all the "junque" we collect.

Oh, well.

For the sake of such fun art, we'll keep the occasional "odd" or "end."