Tag: family
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Pages Marked, Davin Risk, 2025 I received some of my mother’s high school sketches and early design work tonight that she didn’t have space to store anymore. I’m sentimental in my way and I said I would store them and would enjoy looking back at them. Some of them were from before my birth and others from my early teens. There were also a few pieces of my own childhood and teenage art in the mix that were interesting to see again after so many years. After looking through it all I made this drawing and used some bits of…
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Is this the first place I can find myself? Am I here watching unknowing as my grandfather sets up a tripod to take these photos tightly framing the screen of their Phillips TV? It’s July 1969 and I was born five months ago. People are walking on the moon. Is my round baby face in the room to see Walter Kronkite’s relief at those first deeply grainy but impossibly live images of those first steps on the lunar surface? No one is reflected back in these screens so attentively captured by my Grandfather’s camera. But I breathe, somewhere there in…