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Our Neighborhood Through The Eyes Of A 17 Year Old Girl

Yesterday I wrote about our family not having a car for the past five years and how it has helped us go deeper into our neighborhood.  I wrote about becoming radically local and our potluck dinners we have for our neighbors every Sunday night. Today I am posting a new film by daughter Pearl.

This film is our neighborhood as seen through the eyes of a 17 year old girl tuned into the beauty of one day in late October.  She has woven together a collection of these observations into a poetic good-bye to summer. Pearl is a quiet observer and has found the camera to be the perfect tool for sharing with the world what she holds in her heart. She has chosen to cultivate a language of moving images more potent than words.

When Pearl is not behind her camera or in the pages of a novel you can sometimes find her in her room weaving together pot holders. She invented a way to make her own loops cutting them out of old t-shirts - that her mother picks up at second hand stores. She has sold hundreds and hundreds of these pot holders over the years and has purchased her mac-book and two cameras with her profits.  Whether Pearl is weaving colorful pot holder or stunning video clips into a film, she always manages to make something truly beautiful and truly her own.

tags: Pearl, The Neighborhood, film making, pot holders, potluck
Thursday 11.03.11
Posted by Rick Beerhorst
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