anti-ransom postcard: let the girl go

A distraught, obsessive-compulsive parent--armed with kitchen cardboard, gesso, construction paper, markers and a pile of old Nylon magazines--makes a note for the kidnappers.

It's a note for us, as artists, to heed: instead of holding the child captive within, let the girl go!

Charles Baudelaire put it this way: "Genius is childhood recovered at will, a childhood gifted now, for self-expression, with the tools of adulthood." (Le génie n'est que l'enfance retrouvée à volonté, l'enfance douée maintenant, pour s'exprimer, d'organes virils...)