Imagination In Just Kids

“I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.” This quote by Andrew Wiles might as well represent what happened to Patti and Robert in terms of their art, which seem to be the opposite of who they used to be as children. The book Just Kids explained how both Robert’s and Patti’s childhood influenced their work of art.
Just Kids begins by explaining the core of Patti’s and Robert’s art, which is their childhood. Patti and Robert both come from a poor family. The difference is that Patti is raised in a family which allows her to explore her creativity, while Robert is raised in a religious catholic family. Patti has an extraordinary imagination which helps her to grow her art. “the urge …show more content…
He didn’t have a religious or pious relationship with the church; it was aesthetic” (Smith, 4). Robert followed catholic not because of its religion rather more into its sacred rituals. He admired the church’s amenities, dungeons, and mystical symbol and outfit. These fascination then influenced Robert’s work of art. So, instead of having a religious sense in art he is more into sadomasochism. Patti and Robert are like binary opposition of one another. Patti as a child is considered as a bad girl, but trying to be a good girl. She used to have factory job, and give birth out of wedlock. However, later in her life she become this some sort of a saint in her art. On the other hand, Robert as a child was considered a good boy, but later in life he become a bad boy. When he was a child, Robert used to make necklaces for his mother, which is unusual for a little boy to make necklaces. Then later in life he become this artist with arts that portrayed bondage, pain, blood, and sexual practices. “Robert took areas of dark human consent and made them into art. He worked without apology, investing the homosexual with grandeur, masculinity, and enviable nobility.