Portraits Final

Rough Draft:

Contact Sheet:

Final: 

The biggest thing that has ever happened to me was getting a visa in the mail to be able to come to the US.

My earliest childhood memory is my brother chasing me around the kitchen table with a butcher knife trying to kill me.

My biggest fear is poverty.

What makes me happy is… “over here honey, you’re looking at it” What makes me happy is the simple things in life. “like remodeling the bathroom that doesn’t need it.”

My most frequent emotion is happiness.

The toughest thing about being an adult is my face is getting wrinkly and I’m getting old and I hate it. “Do you really?” Yea I do. “Oh, sweetheart you’re lovely. Why would you hate it?”

The thing I like most about being an adult is that I have money and you don’t.

What I like most about myself? I like my sense of humor.

I believe I do have an impact on the world and I try to make one everyday. I just try to make other people’s life less miserable.

I don’t practice a religion, but I was brought up a catholic and I think I probably have some semblances of the good parts and I try to forget the bad parts.

I think family is important, but I don’t believe family is a physical thing. I believe it is an emotional thing. I believe you decide who your family is. I think the perfect family is the one you decide to have and yes there is a perfect one you just have to choose it.

I have never suffered from discrimination. I have also never discriminated against someone. I have been a bystander to bullying though, and I have stood up for someone being bullied. I think bullying means people using their power without recourse. I don’t think appearance matters.

I don’t think there is any one person I respect the most, “Do you respect me?” I respect lots of people and I usually respect them for what they are particularly good at. So I would say there isn’t one person I respect the most.

You know, I have always just wanted to be me. No I don’t want to be anybody else. I think I am at the point in my life where I think I want to be me and that’s good enough.

I think one of the biggest problems in the world is human beings naturally distrust anybody who is not in their natural sphere of experience or influence and I think that’s the worst thing is that we all fear each other and it’s really stupid, Because we are all just the same.