The first is a man on his lawn, bending down next to a child on a tricycle. The photo itself is worn, faded. The man is wearing light brown pants, with a yellow-white button down shit. He looks like a deciduous maple tree�with glasses. Thick frames. His hands are inverted on his hips, though his body is at a 75 degree angle. This child looks bald, or possibly just has hair light enough to match his skin. He, too, is wearing yellow. The tricycle is red, which brings immediate attention to it. The second is an older woman, wearing an apron and a smile. An empty high-chair/tray combination is looming in the background. She is inside an uncharacteristically dark room. She appears alone, though I am forced to admit, by virtue of the picture having been taken, that she is not. The third is the same tricycle child, or perhaps an uncanny monozygotous twin, only this time there is no tricycle. Instead, the child is a shirtless mess with cake in his hair and on his face. It must have been cute to the parents. �Our boy has a cake face! Get the camera!� It feels so contrived, so calculated. The fourth photo, of that deciduous maple tree man and the smiling apron woman, cheek to cheek. The camera angle is bizarre, askew. The man�s forearm runs down the left side of the picture. He is, apparently, taking and staring in the photo. His smile is large and his cheeks are reddened, possibly owning to his perceived ingenuity of multi-tasking his photography with his modeling. The woman, though smiling as well, seems less enthused. Perhaps her mind is wandering to something more. The fifth is that very same child with a mushy food-like substance encrusted across his face. He seems not to mind the food, as he is pre-occupied with a red view-finder toy camera. In the mirror of the toy camera, there is an older man, in a light blue suit, holding a real camera. The child seems oblivious to this. The edge of the picture has a slight bend. The sixth is blurry. There is a darker corner, and it blurs into a flesh colored corner. There is a thumb smudge on the side and a bright white spot just left of the center. The seventh is a picture of an old woman, a younger woman, a child, and a Ronald McDonald statue. The old woman looks worn out. So does the young woman. The child appears docile and happy. Ronald McDonald looks somewhat maniacal. |