These are the artifacts of a first grade investigation into tap roots. Looking at all that glorious pink, I'm guessing beets were involved. Take note of the compositional variety between each print and think about everything these first graders must have learned about a beet's inside and outside! It occurred to me that it is not that often you see a large board displaying so much pink in a school. Lucky us.
It got me thinking about how pink often inspires passionate commentary. Either in favor or against. I love pink but bemoan that it is stereotypically relegated to girls. My son loved it until he hit 4 and my husband wore it at our wedding! I remembered a refreshing essay by David Byrne about pink that I read a few years back. In it, he discovered that pink was a color designated for men prior to 1950! (Similarly blue was the color for women-thanks to Queen Victoria who loved indigo-until I don't know when). Gender biases and assignments aside, Byrne also discovered an interesting fact about pink: in a study, it lowered the heart rate of prisoners. Whether you like it or not, pink is a pretty powerful color! These prints, whether its the pink or the thought of the children engaging with beets in this way, definitely lower
my blood pressure.
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