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I was in my archives recently looking for an image when I came upon a little piece I wrote back in 2017 after making this image. I had an old terracotta flower pot that I kept on our deck for years and years and years. It was a convenient vessel to throw Big Baby Boy’s little action figures in as I cleaned and raked out his sandbox of leaves and stuff. There they sat long forgotten until that day long ago in 2017 remembered once more.
Broken Toys in a Clay Pot
Oh, the battles fought, won, and lost.
Dunes, mountains, and beaches they rushed.
Each solider, dino, and truck carefully chosen to round out the meme.
Rescued from the Great Backyard Battlefield, now broken, and maimed.
30 plus years they’ve been out of the battle,
but their spirit lives on in the memories of the little boy who called them
HIS.
2017
more to come…
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