Children are not usually seen as having keen, critical perception that can be of deep use to us.  This young person is evidently displeased, and I tried to show his dignity through composition.  The deepest desire of every person, every child, I learned from the Aesthetic Realism of Eli Siegel, is to like the world on an honest basis, which includes trying to be an accurate critic of it.

 
 
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