She was kind and sweet, with big eyes and beautiful skin. She was great at explaining all the items in the store. She told us she was from the middle of Morocco, in America to work and learn at Disney World as part of an advanced management program. She kindly let me take her photograph in the afternoon light. My wife was thinking I was taking too much time and she needed to get back to her work, but she was happy to pose for me. We bought some rubbing spices for food and they were yummy.
This week I am showing a series of collages from a trip to Disney World in 2007. Epcot Center was a great place to find inspiration.
“Portraits of Chinese Masks’
The Chinese pavilion at Epcot Center in Disney World had a door that faced the lagoon. The sun was setting on the other side of the lagoon and was streaming into the pavilion at a completely horizontal level. It is odd to see sun that low coming into a building. Usually there is something that gets in the way, another building, trees, walls, hills, etc. But in this place at this time it was filling the room as if it was a flood of water. I stayed there until it set.
The woman behind the counter was having a hard time looking at customers because the sun was right behind them, hitting her in the eyes. I asked her if I could take her photograph and in spite the blinding light, was happy to allow me too. I walked around the room finding other elements and came across the buddha. I didn’t realize it would fit perfectly with her, but I did feel it had the same dimensions. Later I was pretty dumbstruck to find that with virtually no manipulation the two faces matched up perfectly.
My wife and I chaperoned about 40 teenagers to Disney World in 2007. We went for a ‘Singabration’ (I started calling the participants ‘singabrats’ haha). The week was filled with images and memories and stimulation. Watching the kids sleeping on the bus on the way home from Disney World, I imagined what all the kids were dreaming of, what little flotsam and jetsam of memories were being glued together in their brains.
