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by Ashley Weeks Cart
“A portrait of my children, once a week, every week, in 2013.”
Sunny: When she awakes, she immediately heads downstairs and feeds the dogs and then lets them outside for their morning constitutional. She’ll draw colorful pictures of fences, spiders and Australia (all of which are various blobs and scribbles on paper. I do not understand the symbolism, but it’s magical regardless) in her playroom until we emerge from slumber. When we appear, she and James head up to the chicken coop to collect eggs and on her way back to the house, she pauses over our recently emerged bed of chives and plucks a few herbs for consumption. Preschoolers are indeed a wonderful thing.
Kaki: Blowing kisses from her favorite perch in the house, the computer chair. The kid is of her generation, wielding the mouse with far greater ease than her grandparents.
More details about The 52 Project here. To view all the portraits in the series with explanations as to why I’ll be capturing the portraits in the early morning, visit here.