When my oldest was five, he recited this poem:
A FART
by Owen KleonA fart! A fart!
You can hear a fart!A fart! A fart!
You can smell a fart!A fart! A fart!
O why can’t you see a fart?
Perhaps that was the inspiration for our fart collages, an ongoing collaboration and art activity I pull out whenever the kids are driving me absolutely crazy. It’s very easy to make a fart collage: simply cut out a photo from a magazine and add a toot visualization.
I believe deeply, you see, in the connection between fart jokes and creativity. (There’s a whole wiki devoted to Mozart’s love of scatalogical humor.) Jokes, pranks, irreverence — if we start poking fun at the world, at a certain point we wonder if maybe we can change it…
