Girl

  • 17’W x 40″H x 2″D
  • Vintage: dress, shoes, buttons, cookie cutters
  • Photo of artist as child
  • Glass beads

We used to play Red Rover during recess.  Kids would form two lines facing each other and link arms. Each line would take turns sending a kid charging into the opposing line to mercilessly bust through the arms of the kids they considered the weakest link. If they busted through they could grab a kid of their choice to join their line. If they failed, they would have to join ours.

I was almost always considered the weakest link.  However underestimated, I would take my bruises, refusing to let them through.  I usually linked arms with Christine, a classmate who like me, would not bend or brake to the labels, or the kids, they threw at us.

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