Sorry I Have to Reschedule, I’m Preparing My Son’s Funeral

Issue 31 - Childhood
Written By Garreth Chan
SANDRA Little boy and the little car.jpg

How do we choose to remember those who leave before their time? When our memory of them is not through second-hand embarrassment during first dates, or communal laughter during the best man’s speech, or re-telling stories to the young ones after family dinners? When all we have is the unstable fog of memory itself?  

What happens to my son then? Will his childhood remain? 

- For K.


Illustration by Sandra Paris, “Little boy and the little car,” 2020

Garreth Chan

Garreth is a transdisciplinary artist from Hong Kong. He studied music and sociology at NYU Abu Dhabi and worked as a film colorist and producer for a production house before deciding to make whatever he wants. He is most interested in notions of silence and the mundane.

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