![]() ![]() ![]() Sometimes, people won't see the elephant inside of the boa constrictor they'll just see a hat. The young artist in Le Petit Prince is upset that grown-ups can't see what he wants them to see, but that's the thing about art: You can't control how people will interpret or perceive what you put out in the world. But it also comes with a new way of seeing. Growing up comes with what feels like loss-it's nostalgia for a self who could see the elephant inside of the boa constrictor. An idea that has existed far too long-the people who make art don't have money, but the people who consume it do. ![]() Perhaps this is dumb: the idea that true art can't make money, that creative people need to have hustles. The writing I do to make money doesn't always align with the writing I do to survive. The grown-up world is often full of strange compromises and sacrifices you have to make. The young artist in the story decides to abandon his craft at the age of 6, because he doesn't think he'll be able to create what he wants to create, the way he wants to create it.Īs someone who has always wanted to write (but also be able to eat and live), I can understand this impulse to give up art entirely. How old would I have been? At what age do we stop seeing the elephant inside of the boa constrictor? It must happen like tiny pin pricks and not all at once. I don't remember when I stopped understanding things. Perhaps because we've all grown into "reasonable" people who are used to having things explained to us. They never ask me, though, why I didn't use the young artist's first drawing as the model for my tattoo. Sometimes my tattoo requires an explanation, but most people who have read Le Petit Prince know where the elephant inside of a boa constrictor comes from. "Then I drew the inside of the boa constrictor, so the grown-ups could understand." The second drawing that inspired my tattoo. ![]()
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