There's this moment that happens in the studio almost every day. A child is deep in it moving through paint, eyes focused, completely absorbed in what they're making. And then an adult walks in and asks the question we've all asked a million times: "What is it?" It's a natural thing to say. We mean well. But in that moment, we've shifted the child's attention away from the doing and toward the product toward something that needs to be explainable, recognizable, finished. A co