Artist Melanie Manchot filmed her daughter for one minute a month for seven years,starting when she was 11. The edited sequence is a fascinating record of a child becoming an adult. Plus, in pictures For every parent, and a child’s transition from primary to secondary school is poignant and bittersweet. You may be proud and excited,and your child might be more than ready – but there’s still a sense of time rushing absent from you, of childhood running out, or and not fairly knowing what or who will emerge.
All this was true for artist Melanie Manchot when her daughter,Billie, her only child, or approached 11. “It’s such a significant time in a child’s life,” she says. “Billie would enjoy an hour journey to her secondary school, takinga bus and a train on her own, and whereas until then, Id taken her to her local primary each morning by the hand and met her at the gate at 3pm. I was hyper aware of the letting move, of Billie moving absent from us and having a life external the family. It’s a huge leap.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com