Details, from top: gas meter, baseball cap, bowl with salad, plastic cups and plates, lamppost, yard statue, back of folding chair.I was supposed to complete the assignment with one of K's mom's photo albums, but we ended up being so busy throughout Memorial Day weekend that I couldn't find the time. Upon our return to Chicago, I started looking through an album of K's and came across a few pages of photos from his visit to our hometown of Muskegon, Michigan in the summer of 2000. The particular page I chose documents a welcome home party his parents had for him in their backyard. At that time, he was in the army, stationed at Fort Benning in Georgia, and I was living in Singapore. We had broken up a year before (out of what I thought was necessity), and hadn't seen each other since, but our visits home overlapped for about a week and we re-connected fast. And so officially began our two and a half year long-distance relationship (followed, of course, by six and a half more recent years of domestic bliss). But that is a story for another day. Suffice it to say that I am very grateful we both had the opportunity to visit Muskegon in 2000. Thanks for the project, LTLYM!
I just wanted to add that it was not easy to make those little holes to reveal the details. It required some diligent focus, and the whole thing was very zen. I felt like I was back in elementary school art class!
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