| Mother and child by Egon Schiele |
Self-Portrait with Imaginary Mother
ROBYN DAVIDSON
Brick 68
Posted on February 15, 2018
A Reluctant Memoir
When I was eleven years old, my mother gave me a pair of gold sandals. These were for best, and not at all suitable for school. In all my life so far—that dreamy undifferentiated time of childhood—I had worn socks and sensible lace-ups to school. Other children were allowed to run around barefoot—there was cowshit between their toes, and their feet splayed out like thick t-bone steaks. But they were common and the Davidsons were not.