10/26/2026
𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝓉𝒽𝑜𝓁𝑜𝑔𝓎.
a series • two of thirty.
These ones make me feel like summer. I imagine they had a radio during their lake days. I wonder who the artist on the radio was, playing rock & roll slightly tinged with static. I wonder if the bathing suits they wore then were uncomfortable.
I wonder if the car she was in was new to her, that’s why she is so happy with her head out the window. Faces smooshed together full of excitement.
I imagine people looked dapper quite often. I wonder if they rode bikes in suits and dresses? Or did they change into something more comfortable?
I imagine Carolee’s mother on the other side of that camera. I imagine she was filled with the bittersweet feeling of her baby girl growing up. Look how big she has gotten.
Were they all floating the lake? That friend group of girls? Did their mother get splashed when they jumped into the warm lake water? Was it a river? Did they have a picnic? Did ants trail from their basket?
That mother looks like the center of a universe. I do not know if she is the same mother throughout the other photos. Perhaps she is an aunt, or maybe she is a friend. Whoever she was, she looks so powerful. Like she is so proud of the life she was living. I wonder how the photo became double exposed.
