[glass castle]

Glass Castle is a short visual narrative that recounts three excerpts from Jeannette Wall’s memoir Glass Castle, which accounts her immensely dysfunctional upbringing and relationship with her parents. 

During her childhood, Jeannette’s father often spun fantastically grand interpretations to their impoverished, structureless familial reality for Jeannette and her siblings. Glass Castle recounts Jeannette's graduation maturation from wholehearted trust in her father's stories as a child, to aching realization and disappointment of her parents' irresponsibility, deceit, and abuse. 

This short narrative traces backwards three stages of Jeannette and her father’s relationship, which illustrates 1)her trusting naivete and adoring idolization of her father as a child, to 2)denial of her father’s manipulations, to 3)ultimately disappointment and detachment. Walls' narration captures a subtle nostalgia characteristic to long past familial pain, rather than the anger of real time experience--- this I try to capture in my interpretative narrative as well. There seems to be some universal catharsis to how,  with time passage, we can perhaps still access moments of joy and warmth from even the most pained relationships, ultimately providing healing. 

Acknowledgements: 

Shelly for visual and conceptual inspiration, 

music: Song for Sienne by Brian Crain from [https://my-free-music.icu/download/brian-crain-song-for-sienna.html]