Art's like the process.

Jess and I were talking last night and realized that Art is alot more interested in the process of things rather than the result. He focuses so closely on how things work, how water flows over a toy, how flour plops into a bowl. Yesterday Jessica said she had an art project set up for him with glue and scissors and tape and paint and paper. He got totally distracted with the tape and it's stickiness, instead sticking it places and trying to figure out its properties. He has no interested in the finished product, and often there isn't one. Which is fine.

Part of the reason this was a nice realization is that it might inform the way talk with Art. Or already has. For instance, rather than saying, "Art, you need to brush your teeth," I could say "Would you like to use my buzzy (electric) toothbrush?" We actually already sorta do emphasize the process of things already, but it's nice to think of it on it's own.