The Young Eye

My little niece is a great artist. Who can forget the portrait she drew of me with the most befitting of captions: “you are ugly, you are stupid, you are going to prison, Uncle Tijn” (as seen on the left). Well, here’s another champ. With her latest drawing, perhaps involuntarily, she caught all my inner turmoil, brooding angst, dysfunctional frozen smile, psychic screams and glow-in-the-dark black stare… all set off in triumphant harmonic colourful counterpoints of my boyish bubblegummy fairytale panache and my unspoiled belief in high heeled Tink pink pixies doing the Charleston.

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