Smoothly between species

I am listening to a conversation about bird sculptures made of plaster bandage and sticks. The art teacher asks each child to tell about the phases in working on the sculpture and what they thought about the result.

I am astonished by how species vary, develop, and glide into each other surprisingly smoothly in the children’s reflections. Whoever can become whoever in the artistic working process!

“Well, it was meant to be a duck, but as I couldn’t make it round enough it became a crow.”

“This one was going to be a duck, but it doesn’t quite look like a duck. It looks a bit like a lizard.”

“I thought it would be a pigeon, but it was only for about five minutes. Then I thought it would become a peacock, but a female one. But it doesn’t actually look like that either. Now it’s a woodpecker who has seen things.”

“This is like a mummy. I thought it is very old, and that’s why I broke its leg.”

“It looks like a shrimp who has legs, eyes, and a beak.”