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Friday, September 10, 2010
Aztec Art
BY ANNE THOMAS SOFFEE
Posted: 9/9/10 5:21 PM
See this? It’s an Aztec pot. OK, I guess I should clarify. The art class activity today was making an Aztec pot. This is what The Boy made. It’s an “Aztec train tunnel,” inspired no doubt by the very loud, very close train that went by 10 minutes after class started. And by his own iconoclastic vision, which you may remember from past adventures in art. 

He had a little bit of dough left over when class was done. He rolled it into three small ovals and held them in the palm of his hand.

”They look like eggs,” he observed. “Do you think that I could put them in my Aztec train tunnel?” Read full story

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