The Van, The Stories, And The Desire She Finally Followed

A place answers one question.

It doesn't answer the other one, which is, what are you here to do? She'd been a good sign language interpreter, and a good interpreter vanishes, but the next thing she built...

would put her right in the middle of the room.

Getting

crispy around the edges, I ended up relying on sign language interpreting to pay the bills.

There's a feeling that they're speaking directly to one another.

That's the whole goal of it.

And that's not a great place to be permanently.

It wasn't going to be where I was going to stay.

That was the basis of memories out of the box.

The idea is we take a lot of photos and collect a lot of things and we inherit them and all of that.

And we stick them in a box.

I called it being a legacy artist.

a personal museum curator of mostly photos, but it could be baby teeth, locks of hair, baby booties, the bracelet from the hospital, you name it.

I say I'm an artist, but my medium is other people's stuff.

I love legacy artists because people form a real attachment to things, like you said.

Needless to say,

the concept of legacy artistry was a new concept and most people did not get it at all.

I'm like, once I organize and curate them and edit them and edit them and edit them and edit them, then we can print out multiple copies for family members, then they get digitized.

What I was doing was new.

So I thought, how am I going to market this thing? That's how Show and Tales, my in-person gatherings, happened.

And what's the best way for people to meet me and connect with me than by inviting them to bring their things and tell their stories, right? I knew People have things that have stories, so that experience of sitting around a kitchen table or a bonfire telling stories over and over again, you learn how to tell stories by listening to them as you grow up.

I didn't have that, and neither did my parents.

We were not close to our

extended family.