gulf coast, melissa

Gulf Coast, Melissa
26.07.16

This reminds me of summer beach trips on the gulf coast catching crabs using chicken liver in metal cages.

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ichabod, kerri

Ichabod, Kerri
28.06.15

When I was little, my sister and her friends used to tell me that Ichabod Crane was hiding behind the rocks behind our house and that he was going to come get us, so I was always really scared of Ichabod.

#11

jawbreakers, shanie

jawbreakers, Shanie
28.06.15

My brother and I used to come home from the amusement park and share jawbreakers and suck on them and see how fast we could get to the different colours. It was just fun.

#03

snoopy, ab

Snoopy, AB
28.06.15

My childhood memory is of reading Snoopy books and drawing Snoopy. I was 13 or 14 and I read lots and lots. It was my favourite thing and I loved to draw. Snoopy’s great.

#08

bote bote, tito

bote bote, Tito
27.06.15

Bote bote is Spanish for “can can”. It’s a game we used to play in the summer time. It’s similar to hide and seek but involved kicking a can. My childhood was this. Not only because of the game but because it was summer and a lot of people from other parts of Spain came to the building where I lived. My city was a tourist city for summer vacation. There were some friends I only saw during the summer so it was a very playful time and I remember it very well. We used to play at night which was amazing. Imagine being 7 or 8 years old with a big and safe playground just next door. I have very beautiful memories of this.

#04

shark, lumans

shark, Lumans
26.06.15

The last time I touched a shark was also the first time I touched a shark. It was at a shark fishing tournament in Florida. I loved sharks. I made lists of all the species after school. I drew them all the time. And then I actually had the chance to touch one in real life. Except it was dead and hanging on a hook.  Looking back on it now, this was both the right way and the worst way to approach what I had seen in Jaws as the powerful machines of the deep. But I will never forget touching its skin for the first time, finding it cold, finding smooth one direction and rough the other.

#06

christmas, kyle

christmas, Kyle
25.06.15

Christmas was not about presents. My favourite time was when my parents went to sleep and I could walk into the lounge and see the lights on the tree. Even when we moved house we would always have the tree. I want to find it and get it out now.

#01

home, resa

home, Resa
24.06.15

This is the home I was born into and raised until I was 10. That’s a lilac tree in front and it’s in Long Beach, NY. I remember being asked by an adult, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” I said I want to be a artist. A artist, not an artist. I always knew and I did a lot of drawing, coloring and painting when I was living in that house.

#05

rollerskate, clara

rollerskate, Clara 
24.06.15

I got rollerskates for Christmas when I was 8 years old. It was my favourite time to skate around on the flat areas outside my home. It was 3-4 years before I grew out of them and there were holes in them by the end. I never got another pair after.

#08

swing, carina

swing, Carina
12.06.15

I used to play outside a lot. We had a jungle gym and a tree house too. That was built ten years later on the other side of this tree. I pushed my sister on the tire swing. I had so many memories outside.

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