Hannah Lewis
Photography, Painting, Video
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Tuesday, 11 May 2010
"Rear Window"
She seemed almost unconscious of the world around her. This is why she was so startled – because she was so busy thinking her own thoughts. And she addressed me direct. I don’t think she’s ever done that before.And what am I going to do? I plainly can’t go on watching her and following her now she’s seen us doing it and put me on my honour to stop. But I plainly can’t stop watching her and following her now that she’s more or less told me that if we go on we may find something that she doesn’t want us to know.
Mam say’s, I’m a martyr for the fags and so is your father. There may be a lack of tea or bread in the house but mam and dad always manage to get the fags, the Wild Woodbines. They have to have the woodbines in the morning and anytime they drink tea. They tell us everyday we should never smoke, its bad for your lungs, its bad for your chest, it stunts your growth, and they sit by the fire puffing away. Mam says, If ‘tis a thing I ever see you with a fag in your gob I’ll break your face. They tell us the cigarettes rot your teeth and you can see they’re not lying. The teeth turn brown and black in their heads and fall out one by one. Dad says he has holes in his teeth big enough for a sparrow to raise a family.
And so we learned about their lives, came to hold collective memories of times we hadn’t experienced. We could never understand why the girls cared so much about being mature, or why they felt compelled to compliment each other, but sometimes, after one of us had read a long portion of the diary out loud, we had to fight back the urge to hug one another or tell each other how pretty we were.