7/6/2023 0 Comments Little legends vashti harrisonA moving several-spread sequence, which includes a gatefold, portrays the overwhelmed child as increasingly cramped within the pages-and others’ judgments-before she gives the words back (“These are yours./ They hurt me”) and makes room for everything she loves (“I like the way I am”). until it wasn’t.” The dancing, playful child becomes the subject of cruel playground taunts when she gets stuck in a swing, and receives criticism from a teacher that “made her feel small.” Overwhelmed by others’ derision, the girl runs away from a dance rehearsal in which she’s made to wear plain colors and embody a mountain instead of a flower. This ode to big self-love from Harrison ( Sulwe) begins with a smiling, brown-skinned baby girl who has “a big laugh and a big heart/ and very big dreams.” Through a series of emotionally centered, affectionate digital images set against dreamy chalk pastel backdrops, this smiling, bouncing baby becomes a child who “learned and laughed and dreamed and grew and grew and grew.
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