A sloth painted this.
Upside down, on his back, holding a brush between two toes.
One grown daughter had ordered this painting by Enzo the Sloth via Etsy as a Christmas gift for my other grown daughter. She loves sloths (and dogs and black cats and T-Rexes) in the same whimsical way her dad loves penguins.
This proved to be the perfect gift for her.
Enzo, naturally, took his time with the project, and there was a bit of a scare he wouldn’t finish by Christmas.
The artist came through, though, to the delight of our entire family.
I’m no expert on sloth art, but I believe this might be Enzo’s masterpiece: a wonderfully expressive self-portrait of the “Enzo” the artist dreams of becoming.
It looks like he’s skateboarding, bringing to mind a BuzzFeed story about what Emma Watson said made her fall in love with Tom Felton while making the “Harry Potter” movies:
“I walked into a room where we were having tutoring,” Emma explained. “The assignment that had been given was to draw what you thought God looked like, and Tom had drawn a girl with a backward cap on a skateboard.”
In Enzo’s self-portrait you can see his two curved toes with arms spread as he speeds through mid-air toward a magnificent, graceful landing. He’s blithe and unencumbered by physical limitations.
There’s no looking back for this sloth.
Enzo is my inspiration for 2022.
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| A photo of Enzo, masterpiece in progress. |
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