This image was found on a bus stop billboard. Originally, it was an advertisement for a tutoring center. The paper the girl is holding contained a math test that had been graded and showed her score. I wasn’t so interested in this, so I took it out. When I added the white border, I was surprised to discover that it looked as if the girl had pulled down the corner of the page to hide behind, as if in a game of hide and seek or peek a boo. I liked this sudden shift in meaning.
While I acknowledge the desire and arguable need for children to study and excel, the fact remains that study is an imposition imposed on them by others. Self-advancing work supplants joy in play. An eye to a future outlined by adults replaces living for and in the present. Given the opportunity, children would rather play.
Edward Lewis 