James Joyce obsessively researched the prose he used to describe the process by which thermal energy from the sun is stored for millennia as fossilized vegetable matter that will eventually heat Leopold Bloom’s shaving water, which is itself the product of complex processes that push and pull through a labyrinth between Dublin’s reservoir and Bloom’s tap.
Art allows one to focus attention on the details that matter to you and to your creative young people. Take time to become lost in art this year, talk with your children about the art they make, and check back here for resources as the school year clicks forward.