Shadow Friends Diary
@ShadowFriendsDiary is a collaborative and archival visual diary stitched together from anonymous submissions of videos and words. This project started during the Pandemic in 2020.
Shadow Friends Diary 001
March 2021
Video
001 (Submissions)
Index of Submitted words and sentences (in alphabetical order)
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Alive: running under the sun makes me happy
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Be Kind to yourself.
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Caffeinating
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Cellars
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Chilly
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Courage speaks in graceful leaf rustles.
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Disco in the dark
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Don’t believe what they say
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Excited
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First outside jog for this spring
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Getting sunshine on my body from the window, reminding my strength
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Me and my morning matcha
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Meeting the water’s edge/ making friends with cold early spring wind
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Moving through molasses, through water
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My happy place
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On my way to work feeling empathy for the fallen cone
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Open the curtains
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Patience
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Peppy
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Reflection refraction
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Running under the sun makes me happy / alive
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Rushing to a fax
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Seasons are subjective
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Shadow Homie
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Snacky
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Tentative kindness. A kindness felt from a far, buried somewhere in my heart.
Shadow Friends Diary 000
May 2020 - Feb 2021
Video (iPhone 8)
000 (Self-documentation)
"Meeting my Shadow friends"
Let me string your words together like a friendship bracelet.
Tie together something that exists within you and within me
into something that exists within us.
Hold my hand like a kindergarten paper cut out
Kissed by the sunlight, hanging onto the windows of old classrooms.
Bring me back to the place where my memory lives.
There,
No fine line between
What’s a stranger and what’s a friend,
who’s a stranger, or who’s a friend.
I only knew one line,
“Hi, do you want to play with me?”
Here,
Let me invite you on a playdate.
Let’s make friends with your shadow
Or shine,
when light finds us.
Children of light,
Shadow friends.