Art in Community among the Poor

A study for 'the dive' painting which hangs at the Valley House center.


I just listened to a great ‘This American Life Show’ entitled ‘Unconditional Love’. You can listen to it at…This American Life . It has a segment on attachment disorder through the story of a kid adopted from Romania who was in an orphanage till 7 years old, He didn’t know what parents were. Many of these kids who grew up in these same orphanages are now over 18 and on the streets coping with glue bags. I appreciated that the show started with a segment on the psychological and pediatric trends in the US, which were saying that too much affection would harm children, give them infections and other problems, this meant kissing your child more than once a year was harmful! Lets not accuse Romanians or other peoples of being backwards and inhuman too quickly...they may be just applying our own theories. God help us.