Etüden und Serenaden

This is one of the few portraits of my family that exist. It was taken shortly after my birth (yes, I’m the strangely smiling infant in the middle) and portrays my sister, my mother, me and my father. My mother was 23 years old when my sister was born, my birth followed three years later. For some reason I really like this photograph – it’s… well, we look like a happy family. Anyway, this is the only picture of me as an infant. My parents focused on documenting my sister’s infancy rather than on mine and when asked why my mother said “because you went through the same steps as your sister.” I still feel as if there were a piece of me missing. Both my sister and I were said to have been quiet children, well, I seemingly was more quiet than my sis, and pretty sociable. As I said – there are no other pictures of my infancy, the next picture of me I know of was taken when I was 2 years old.
I’ll try to get my family to get together some time this December to take another family portrait. It’s been a while, I think and I would love to have – at least a bit of – this warm family feeling back.