Reminisce is about finding joy once more in the things you cherished in your youth, no matter how “odd” or “weird” it was. It’s reclaiming the peculiarity you felt at 13. The fire of your obsession over a certain piece of media in the past is reignited, now with a feeling of fondness and nostalgia. It’s holding your 13-year old self and telling her it’s alright to like things other people don’t.

The question “what do you miss most about home?” strikes me because it wasn’t supposed to exist in a light-hearted conversation.

Honeywarm is a piece that conveys that faraway sense of nostalgia and childhood, invoke those memories and bask in it so we can move forward knowing. It’s important, before our new beginnings, that we remember where we came from and bring the positives with us forward (e.g., the memory of a tree’s shade, corner arcade, diner milkshakes.)

This collage holds a vivid memory of me realizing what daydreaming is. I was at my classroom for an after-school activity, art and craft class. I remembered drawing the classic two mountains, a sunny side up in the middle of them, and the stick-styled birds flying in the sky. For a whole two hours, me and some of my friends tried our best to make ours look the coolest it can be. Best student of the day always got a sticker pack (glittery keroppi that day) at the end of the class.