saw a teenager taking a picture of something at the highschool. her subject could've been a pile of filled paper leaf-bagging bags, an intersting mark of moisture on the school wall, something I couldn't see, or some tableau of these. she took quite a while to frame and focus--which you'll rarely, by the bye, catch me doing. it was school hours but she was off free on a photo taking mission. she possessed a sense of focussed seriousness. young artists reside in a world of intense possibility. they may feel they haven't the ability to produce some large work, say, or technically lack the skill to do this or that, but they proceed knowing so much is interesting and possible. which feeling isn't necessarily lost to older artists, but it takes more effort to remain in that sense. we all know people in high school and college, who wrote, played music, did art, who later kinda sorta lost that aspect. it is something, then, just to hang on.