Game

2020

Pen and watercolor on paper.

Day 26: Game

You know the situation, where you are denied something and you just want it all the more for it? Well, I think that is what fueled my childhood obsession with The Game of Life.

I always wanted to play but no one in my family wanted to play. Ever. For some reason that I still don't understand, we owned the game and it just sat there, staring down at me from the shelf, whispering sadly to me, asking me, begging me: Please Johanne...please take me down and play me... Anytime we had a game day, I could hear its desolate cry from the closet and I pleaded for us to play the game. I couldn't understand how my family could be so cruel!

As I grew up, it turned out that no one outside my family wanted to play either... I still couldn’t understand it! Why was I the only one who wanted to play?

Then I became an adult, with car payments and rent and a life governed by my educational choices and a bank account that laughed at my pitiful attempts to keep it full.

And now.... I still wanna play, who's in?

#csquarantart was a 30 day challenge a friend of mine started on Instagram at the beginning of the first lockdown of 2020 due to COVID-19. These are some of my contributions