The Art Assignment: Lost Childhood Object
Assignment given by: Lenka Clayton
Artist: minnesbeta
I asked my friend Ellinor if she’d lost an object from her childhood, this is what she said:
”A piece from my mom's old apple tree. It was a stump of an old branch that I used as a handle when I climbed up or down the tree almost every day. It was a very important part of this very important tree. One day my godfather came to prune all the trees in the garden and he, unknowing, cut the handle-stump off! I was devastated and ran out into the forest to cry. Afterwards I had the stump standing in my room, as an important and very close friend, for a long time. It's gone now, I don't know where it went. It disappeared twice, first from the tree and then from my things. It was about 10 cm tall, wider at the base, leaning to one side and had its own little stump close to the top on the leaning side.”
When I showed her the handle-stump I made for her (from a piece of an old mattress and some paint) she said: “Wow, it’s moving to see it again. It actually look like it. How very nice!”
