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I'm stealing my childhood and all that I love from myself and I can't do anything about it.

Oh my god.
I love this picture.
So.
Much.

The city where I was born, grew up, and until very recently, lived, is going to undergo a HUGE overhaul. The downtown area's going to be completely redesigned, torn down and rebuilt. They've already redone the library and are starting on the bus center.

The actual concept behind this picture is that it's me, and the people I know, and the things I (theoretically) have control over, that are destroying what little of my childhood I have left. Park Place, the 'nickname' of part of downtown, is wonderfully un-beautiful, which itself makes it beautiful. It's plain and badly laid out and half the stores are out of business or have been replaced three times in the last few years. But I love it anyways.
But it's being made nice. And I despise that.
There's also that I've moved, and that everything familiar about my childhood, my school, my parents, my friends, are (mostly) a city away. I have to go out of my way whenever I want to visit what I grew up on.
My school itself, which is where these were taken, has officially gotten rid of every piece of equiptment they had when I was there. The giant metal bubble (which *I* actually caused to get taken out 'cause I fell on my head from it...), the splintery wood and slippery cold metal set, and the rough, digs-into-your-knees gravel on the field, they're all gone.

So I'm standing there, stealing the color and childish innocence from... myself.

This shoot took me a week to plan and a month to put into action and nearly two hours to execute.

(c) me
Photographer is Gabbi, give her some SWEET AND TENDER LOVING.

Description
I'm stealing my childhood and all that I love from myself and I can't do anything about it.

Oh my god.
I love this picture.
So.
Much.

The city where I was born, grew up, and until very recently, lived, is going to undergo a HUGE overhaul. The downtown area's going to be completely redesigned, torn down and rebuilt. They've already redone the library and are starting on the bus center.

The actual concept behind this picture is that it's me, and the people I know, and the things I (theoretically) have control over, that are destroying what little of my childhood I have left. Park Place, the 'nickname' of part of downtown, is wonderfully un-beautiful, which itself makes it beautiful. It's plain and badly laid out and half the stores are out of business or have been replaced three times in the last few years. But I love it anyways.
But it's being made nice. And I despise that.
There's also that I've moved, and that everything familiar about my childhood, my school, my parents, my friends, are (mostly) a city away. I have to go out of my way whenever I want to visit what I grew up on.
My school itself, which is where these were taken, has officially gotten rid of every piece of equiptment they had when I was there. The giant metal bubble (which *I* actually caused to get taken out 'cause I fell on my head from it...), the splintery wood and slippery cold metal set, and the rough, digs-into-your-knees gravel on the field, they're all gone.

So I'm standing there, stealing the color and childish innocence from... myself.

This shoot took me a week to plan and a month to put into action and nearly two hours to execute.

(c) me
Photographer is Gabbi, give her some SWEET AND TENDER LOVING.