Beve Pietrowski's Work

Miss Beve was at school today on a candid shoot. I'm posting some of her pictures. I'm very excited by this because it shows the children at play and it tells something about their day.

Beve's work is just wonderful and we all appreciate the joy and fun she brings with her when she comes over. she relates so well to the children, but more than that there is a sharing of the human condition, the need to create and discover.

We talked a long time about craft, writing, poetry, photography, painting, and other things and how sometimes with the right effort or the right motivation, we raise the craft to an art. That's the hope of most artists, that somewhere along the line, the craft will become art.

There are few people who want to talk about such things. There are few people who want to talk about what makes a craft art, or what motivates the writer or the photographer or the sculptor to raise the bar.

Most people are content with looking or reading or watching craft without ever thinking about how something has come out of the ordinary and has become something moving, something true, something that really teaches. Most people regard the ordinary as "enough." Experiencing art, which is a step above craft, makes the difference between ordinary and extraordinary.

That's why we push the arts so hard at school. Art is not a messy obnoxious business that has to be tolerated for its mess and disruption. Art is the necessary avenue that explains to the child that all things in life are possible. Without art, nothing is possible, everything becomes rote, routine and lifeless. Imagine life without possibilities; it becomes what writers call white wall.

The life of the artist is one of pursuit. The writer writes in hopes of creating beauty and interest, and it's not easy. The photographer photographs in hopes of explaining the world in a one of a kind way.

Anyway, it was a very special day.

There will be another candid shoot on February 7th in the morning.