Alison Age 6, 2015,
chalk on mirror, 27 1/2" x 19 3/4"
Ashley Age 7, 2015,
chalk on mirror, 37 3/8" x 25"
Beth Ann Age 8, 2015,
chalk on mirror, 42" x 18 3/4"
Cynthia Age 5, 2015,
chalk on mirror, 38 1/4" x 26 1/4"
Heather Age 8, 2015,
chalk on mirror, 36 1/4" x 24 1/4"
Jessica Age 13, 2015,
chalk on mirror, 38 5/8" x 21"
Kristina Age 13, 2015,
chalk on mirror, 39 1/4" x 18 3/4"
Lisa Age 10, 2015,
chalk on mirror, 40 1/4" x 24"
Liz Age 8, 2015,
chalk on mirror, 36 3/8" x 20 3/8"
Lolin Age 7, 2015,
chalk on mirror, 48 1/4" x 29"
Mary Age 6, 2015,
chalk on mirror, 34" x 24"
Mary Beth Age 7, 2015,
chalk on mirror, 33 3/8" x 25 3/8"
Michael Age 7, 2015,
chalk on mirror, 26 1/4" x 15 1/4"
Ross Age 10, 2015,
chalk on mirror, 20 5/8" x 16 5/8"
Sarrah Age 14, 2015,
chalk on mirror, 34" x 28"
Shelby Age 10, 2015,
chalk on mirror, 31 1/8" x 23 1/4"
Beaming With Happiness
This series is about that moment when a child is overcome with pure joy and it lingers. As adults when a moment of joy happens we tend to let it slip away much too fast. A child is enveloped in this elation and is carried with it. For this series people were asked to provide a memory from childhood when they were ‘beaming with happiness’. These snippets of childhood memories are layered on adopted mirrors through the familiar media of school days, blackboard and chalk. Viewers are invited to take a travel through childhood memories that by the end hopefully will place a smile across their face and ignite some of their own nostalgic childhood reflections.
“Don't you wish you could take a single childhood memory and blow it up into a bubble and live inside it forever?”
-Sarah Addison Allen, Lost Lake