![]() ![]() Images are snapshots of single moments, and never is a child depicted it is left to readers to decide whether the toys move on their own or have been posed by a hand outside the frame. Sometimes, as when comically on their backs "sleeping," they seem stiff and immobile other times, as when they huddle together during a thunderstorm, eyes wide and frightened, their bodies exude warmth and softness. Henkes keeps readers gently off-balance as to the nature of these toys' sentience. Respectively, the first four wait for the rain, the wind, the snow, and the moon the rabbit just likes waiting. ![]() ![]() In the mode of such pastel-hued, minimalist delights as A Good Day (2007), Henkes presents a pig with an umbrella, a bear with a kite, a puppy on a sled, an owl with spots, and a rabbit with stars (this last is depicted as a spring-loaded rabbit head, rather like the innards of a jack-in-the-box). Five toys ranged on a windowsill exemplify existential pleasure. ![]()
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