Destructive Editing

This is for the failures.
For all the paper in the trash bin.
For all the videos with zero plays.
For all the prototypes and corrupted drives and 404 Not Found’s.
For draft version final FINAL (1) old.
Put it on the screen.

That Pablo Picasso quote about how every child is an artist.
That Malcolm Gladwell quote about your 10,000 hours.
Every motivational poster.
Eagle. Sunset. Mountain. Serif font.
A photograph is a painting is a project file.
Data grist for the multimedia mill.
Primordial ooze of ones and zeroes.
Select brush tool.
Put it on the screen.

Undo.
An animated face says “oops!”
or “uh-oh!”
or “oh no!”
or “yikes!”
That Bob Ross quote about how there are no mistakes, just happy accidents.
Wondering, is it a child or a man? Or something else? Something inhuman.
That Joy Mountford quote about how the computer sees you as one eye and one finger.
Both are starting to hurt.
Put it back on the screen.

In Kid Pix everything is art and nothing is sacred.
Where the act of creation is merely an excuse to destroy.
Less like watercolor and more like digital décollage.
Click the dynamite.
Click again.
Explosion sound.
Concentric circles.
Growing, inverting, erasing.
It’s gone.
The screen draws a blank.