Baby Terrier, Andrey Vishnevsky – buy, price on request | Don Foundation

Baby Terrier

Technique: Canvas, oil.
Size: 70 × 100 см.

“… A Girl melts, melts in a sky-blue haze, dreaming and not noticing that the ‘baby’ in her arms has turned into a dummy from which anything can be carved – or perhaps it suits her, a puppet is simpler. It is much harder to look into the eyes and to be able to listen, so as not to lose sight of something very important, that without which a child cannot become truly independent in thought, proactive and curious – not on command, but because ‘I want it myself’. Without this important thing, not written in any manual, one can raise a decorative Baby-Terrier. But to understand this one must stop being a Girl and begin to think for oneself, to reject imposed stereotypes and other people’s scripts, to stop being a scrolled-past picture in someone’s feed, and to love not the ideal self, not a genius child and not a glossy life – but how to do this, the method has not yet been invented…”