Abstract

This is an accepted article with a DOI pre-assigned that is not yet published.

Another Delicious Story consists of photography and video taken by my preschool-aged child with text and narration by myself, his mother. This video essay contemplates such questions as “How does a four-year-old frame photographs?” “What is a ‘punctum’ to a four-year-old?” and finally, “What stories do a mother and child tell each other?” I compose alongside the children’s book A Delicious Story by Barney Saltzberg, which consists of an absent or eaten narrative within a narrative, within a third unfolding story. As I trace how my child appears to be trying to externalize embodied affects and feelings in the photographs he takes, I relate this, inversely, to A Delicious Story, which brings the outside in, in the form of an edible (consumable) story.[1]

 
[1] I must acknowledge Emily Martin’s wonderful early input on this project, which helped shape editing choices. She specifically pointed out the outside-in/inside-out logics of the work.

Keywords

Childhood, Motherhood, Storytelling, Photographic punctums, Roland Barthes, Jazmina Barrera, D. W. Winnicott, Barney Saltzberg, D.W.Winnicott