Karen Andrade & Juliana Melara-Recinos
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I guess looking back retrospectively at my childhood memories, I kind of think that I've changed a lot as a person. But also I kind of feel bad for the kid that I used to picture, I used to see, that I always see in the images I find stored. And then whenever I look at those images, I just kind of feel bad. I'm like, wow, the world is waiting to wreck you. The world is just there. It's about to...and as a child, you picture the world to be a perfect place. And you don't know all the things going like taxes, consumerism.
You're very innocent. So it's like...and looking back, it's like I'm not the same person anymore. And it's like, I don't know this little girl. The life she was living is not the same thing I'm going through now. And it's super weird because most of those pictures are me in EL Salvador, not in America. And the ones I see in America kind of change. The way I used to live over there was in the wild. Not in the wild, but in the farm with animals and stuff. And then the pictures I find when I'm here, it's a sharp distinction because I'm stuck in a house. I'm literally surrounded by buildings and stuff. That's what most of my pictures are. So, you can see that in the images. The before and the after of immigrating here…
