introduction

i stayed after work today to scan my collected archive of family negatives. it's really amazing to see pictures of things you've lived but don't remember and have never seen before. the digital images are just placeholders until i decide which ones i want to print from film, and how. in the meantime, i think i may periodically post images from the archive with an accompanying story. you know, from my past to yours.


this is my mummy and me in boulder, colorado, where most of these negatives take place. my parents always liked hanging out in grassy fields and taking pictures, something i always took for granted but now realize is not universal. we used to share one of those clapboard houses with someone; i think it was the blue one. i will always describe my mother as beautiful in these pictures. she's very demure and ladylike. even now, she seems ages away even though photographically she's no more than a few years older than me currently. as for me, i began my love affair with multicolored dresses early. also a hint of things come, i loved the camera. i used to smile a lot before my teeth grew in and got crooked in adolescence, and i got self conscious.