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Ode to My Childhood
Tony Lee
May 2021
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Children of the earth, we are born as fluid clay that shifts with the wind, stretches to fit cracks, and shrinks under the pressure of hands that beat down on us.
What shapes us?
The environments we grow up in as toddlers and young children mold our identities, and as our environments change, we transform along with them.
In this Capstone project, I explore and envision the various environments and circumstances that define us as people — from folklore to corrupt governments; from poverty to whitewashing; from abusive parents to even arson.
We’re all, in a way, just mathematical sums of our internal thoughts and external influences.
Writing and creating art about these external factors that we cannot control, particularly throughout this lonely year full of derailed plans and global turmoil, has helped me gain new clarity over the important things in life, as well as come more to terms with aspects of myself I’ve never been satisfied with before.
I will turn 19 in August. This is an ode to my childhood.
