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“Criss cross light and dark
Shadow patterns in the grass.”
“I looked at the trellis in the back yard with renewed interest.”
“I noticed the shadows coming in through the kitchen window. I have been in the house for five years and never
noticed them. I was playing with the cup in the light. It was a magic moment as the light changed. The rays were
tall and short as I moved the cup back and forth.”
“I saw the shadows on the rock when I looked again.
I liked it then, I didn’t know why … now I see the shadow.”
“I saw how I limit things.
I had expectations about how shadows should move.
I was surprised. It was like the shadow had taken over.”
“Everything has a shadow, even when it's dull.”
We noticed a delight in discovering and rediscovering shadows, seeing the supposedly mundane in a new way,
noticing what has always been there but was outside our consciousness: becoming aware of the extraordinary in
the ordinary.
We noticed the difference in response to the conceptual idea of shadow - and the surprise and pleasure in
coming~to~know ‘this shadow’. Malaguzzi’s theory of pleasure (2016, 309) was unfolding before our eyes.
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