Un-Adoptically Me | Snapshot 2: Little Lamb
I was taught to radiate a borrowed joy, mirroring a family narrative that told me I was chosen only because I was the prettiest baby in the room.
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AUTHOR’S NOTE FROM THE CAVE STUDIO:
Recording this in our Cave Studio in Tulbagh, the morning light feels deceptively gentle. Keith is at the controls, and the memory of performing gratitude still lives somewhere in my chest.
ABOUT THIS SNAPSHOT:
Little Lamb explores the performance of gratitude within a late-sixties South African adoptive home, where belonging was conditional on prettiness and conformity. The eerie silence of polite distance and the knot of biological non-resemblance are laid bare.
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