18" x 24". Medium: newspaper, newsprint, xerox transfer, charcoal, and ink.
I remember reading a Magic Tree House book in the third grade. It took me a month to get past the first four chapters and even so I could not remember what I had read. One of my classmates came over and said, “You’re still reading that? Those books are so easy.” He left and I broke out in tears. It felt like he had reached in and torn my heart out.
Language and reading have always been a struggle for me and dyslexia shapes much of who I am. It has made me grow up faster and understand that things do not always play out the way we want. It has made me build up a determination that helps push me further. It also makes me see things in pictures rather than words. This memory represents that phase and struggle.
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