A Lifetime in Snapshots
Kaylee Ann W.
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The idea behind this work is tryin to tell a story only through describing objects. Most story’s are told through the characters actions and reactions to the world around them, but I tried to tell a story through the objects around the characters instead. This story is very important to me because they have been with me for a while as I attempted to tell their story, but though sometimes their relationship with each other would be different they would always find each other and it would always end with grief. Their’s has always been a bittersweet story of short lived happiness that I could never get quite right and in this continuous journey for perfection I have grown to know these characters far more than could be illustrated in this short story. It fits them I think, as just as I discovered who they were by guessing and filling in the blanks as their story slowly revealed itself, leaving these gaps in how they story portrays them leaves them open to interpretation by the reader. That’s who they are, they are a mystery even to me, filled in with experience, guesswork, dreams, and pieces of myself. And I hope through only the descriptions of their home you can find a bit of their personality.
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Creativity is freedom. Being able to create things, to tell my stories, is to free my mind for the world and escape. It is a way to cope and a way to share who I am with the world.
