Precisely Now by Peggy Washburn

In my first-grade class, I was taught to write with my right hand. I was more comfortable with my left. We had big sheets of paper and were asked to make lines, then circles using our whole arm. I made hundreds, maybe thousands of circles. I pasted these circles, along with found objects into books. It helped me to record my thoughts and make visual order. It also allowed me to express the familiar disorder of a child’s mind. I later added drawings and eventually my photographs.

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