SNEAK PREVIEW!
A few days ago I read a disturbing article in a weekly news magazine we receive in the mail. It pointed out how kids today spend 90% of their waking hours connected to some electronic media or the other (among them the usual guilty triage of Apple paraphernalia, and various types of virtual reality apparatuses) They also multi-task, which meant they were consuming a few hours more of digital information than the hours they actually had!
This was not news of course, it has become something of a standard rant in my household, my husband and I could have a field day discussing this and comparing what (in our opinion) were superior yesteryears.
I grew up in a really small town in a far away distant land, we didn’t have cinemas or malls, and I remembered when the very first traffic light in town went up. It was a joyous occasion, we were finally a real town! It has been many moons since, and being occasionally guilty of media overload, I wanted to remember how playtime was when we didn’t have much else.
This project, fueled by requests for a collection of childhood illustrations from my parents, became in the end, a series of 12 vignettes-each one a little precious nugget of memory. It is a project just as much for myself as it is for anyone who cares to reminisce of a simpler time, not so very long ago.