If your house was burning
I had to watch a film in the 3rd grade about what to do if my house was on fire. It was terrifying then and admittedly still haunts me today. A neighbor’s house burned when I was a little kid, they moved. Another family moved in and that same house caught on fire again, this time burning almost to the ground. I’ve been on vacation when a fire broke out across the street,we watched the blaze through our window. A few years ago the house next to my parents’ caught fire when there were multiple car and paint explosions inside their garage, and lastly the year I lived in Santa Barbara I was evacuated three times because of rampant wildfires in the area.
I guess I’ve had my share of close fires, perhaps it isn’t such a stretch that i worry often about what to take if my space bursts into flames.
As an artist have you considered this? I sometimes wonder if it isnt’ because I am an artist that I worry more than I should? My art and the artwork I have collected over the years carries the evidence of me in this world and is irreplacable.
Here is an artist Jessica Goodman’s Burning House project with this as the central concept…what would you take if your house was burning? She has a photographed many a person’s chosen items. So far my own list seems to be closest to 6 year old Brody Tors as seen in Jessica’s photo below.
