Week 9 - 2020
The Slide, Lidia, 6 years, from the project «Images for remembering»
The Slide
We can easily see that this is a slide. Perhaps it's been a while since you’ve experienced a sense of speed and excitement from a slide about 150 cm tall? However, an image of a slide can generate a wide array of different responses. This image is shot by Lidia, 6 years of age, during her last year in Karljohansvern kindergarten. It's part of the project «Images for remembering» where Lidia took pictures of things she wanted to remember from kindergarten. Here is Lidias perception of the image. We recommend you imagine the excited voice of a child as well as her laughter while reading this:
«Cus’ all the kids are playing with the slide! Alle kids love slideeeeees! I think it is fun to slide for all the kids. Also Bella is sliding too! It is really fun. If it rains on the slide, then, we slide down, and the bum fall offfff!!!! For it is, water is slippery… Also, if, me and Ingrid was before.... playing with the slide when it rained… We played that we were gonna slide, and then we fell offffff! Really fast!
The school haven’t got a slide… Oh, yes they have! But it's bigger than this slide. I don't know why, because… If the big kids, the big kids have longestest legs! But not the slide at school, because it is very tall! You know what, I can climb on that slide myself, on my own! My legs are starting growing because all my clothes are too small, a little bit too small for me. And my stockings ruined and ruined and ruined! And sometimes there is a hole in my sock. I don't know why my socks gets all holey when I grow…»
The project was a collaboration between USN (University of South-East Norway), Horten municipality and Preus museum. All images from the project, including texts can be found at preusmuseum.no/huskebilder. The project reveal fun, nice and sometimes vulnerable insights into kindergarten life, perceived from roughly 120cm above stockinged feet.