Finding Alice

The Yellow Notepad

This is the first digital essay I made. I'm quite fond of it even in its rough state as it is what inspired me to move further into exploration of traditional essay with new media.  Once I saw how images, voice, and sound performed in different ways to bring out the subtext of story, I was hooked.

The idea for Yellow Notepad came to me in an epiphanic moment. I had looked at this notepad dozens of times and had never seen much value in it. Then, after rummaging around in a dusty drawer one day, I found it again. This time something stood on the page and in that moment of discovery, I realized the complexity of the story I was trying to tell.

Humming

As with much of this blog/vlog, the following digital essay explores the intergenerational effects of my grandmother Alice's relationship with her first husband, Jennings. 

During my search for Alice, it became obvious that movement (in various forms: physical, emotional, geographical...) has played a significant role in the lives of the women in our family.