A retrospective of Martha Cooper’s work shows the ramshackle toys and improvised games from a bygone era of growing up.

Before the white chrysanthemum the scissors hesitate a moment — Yosa Buson This poem touched me with a simple truth: even death pauses before the beauty of life. It made me realize what stops time for me—my children, the most fragile and tender beauty I know. Through them, childhood became in my mind, a fleeting

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Cozette Russell builds densely shadowed worlds that reverberate through imagery and surface, considering time as a tactile material in itself. Intimate moments of her life are split, repeated, and coerced into forms that echo a rhythmic heartbeat on their own. Russell’s work is autobiographical and closely questions overlapping elements of care, feminism, and the many

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And more Little Chicken.

Why do we seem to create fantastical worlds in childhood? Childhood allows for our imaginations to thrive and as life gets more complicated we lose a lot of magic. As adults, we often become reconnected to those fantastical worlds after having children. An Untold Fairytale reclaims that imaginative space as an ongoing site of identity-making. In this performative

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Sophy Romvari’s first feature brings keen observation and wondrous imagination to the quasi-autobiographical story of growing up with a brother in crisis.

There are awkward afternoons, and then there is this.

When I first met McCall Hollister, they told me all about how they collect rocks. It took some listening for me to understand, but I connect with that compulsion to collect and hold something as simple as a dull brown rock. There is something profound about operating at a slower speed and digesting the details

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Childhood has changed. Even kids who grow up today with a minimal diet of screen time and iPads will have a far different experience in today's modern world than those who grew up before the internet. Childhood was simpler for Boomers and Gen Xers, in many ways. Not always better, but there was definitely something special about its simplicity. Some parts of it no longer exist.

Where the…

I still remember the days when video cameras were a luxury. Growing up, I couldn't afford one for sure. So, my early memories are captured in photographs taken with a traditional film camera. I remember having a box at home full of photos from trips with my family. But I also recall that I always...