The Children from Tahiti 05 – Tahitian Boy with Knife

Tahitian Boy with Knife - by Miki

Pastel chalk painting on Fine Art Paper

One of my favourites from my “Children from Tahiti” series…

Last year as I was making some designs for a greeting cards company, I remember having chosen this painting for a Father’s Day card with the title:

“Life is a long thread from YOU to ME…”

It would have been perhaps more appropriate for a Mother’s Day card, keeping in mind the umbilical cord … and in fact, thinking about it, it was rather a bad choice for Father’s Day as the boy is about to cut the thread with the knife!

But in any case, yes, life is a long thread connecting us to our parents, whether we want it or not. Almost every child, once in his life, mostly in his/her youth, is tempted to cut this thread, and sometimes he/she does it, but the consequences are often dramatic, at least from a psychological point of view, for the child as well as for the parents. I know very well what I am speaking about, and I wish any child or parent actually denying the other would stop this awful nonsense at once!!!

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