Suitcases are very important in my family. For as long as I can remember there were two steel trunks, each about a meter wide and half a meter deep, that lived in the corner of my grandfather's bedroom. You could not miss them cause the room was small and the trunks were big. As a child, I pleaded and sulked about taking a peak inside them. My grandparents denied all these requests like bureaucrats following due process. As a teenager, I discovered that my family had their own suitcases. One of them contained family photo albums, a blue-striped white shirt that my father wore to his engagement, a colorful assortment of sarees that my mom never wore, and tickets from the 1972 Munich Olympics that my father's pen-friend had sent to him. Unlike the steel trunks, It took me a while to find this suitcase. Within a generation, they had moved from airy surroundings filled with light and people to dingy cupboards that were functional and out of sight. The suitcases had moved to the suburbs. They'd make trips to the city once in a while during a clean-out or to satiate the indiscriminate curiosity of a teenager.
Galvanized Suitcase
Galvanized Suitcase
Galvanized Suitcase
Suitcases are very important in my family. For as long as I can remember there were two steel trunks, each about a meter wide and half a meter deep, that lived in the corner of my grandfather's bedroom. You could not miss them cause the room was small and the trunks were big. As a child, I pleaded and sulked about taking a peak inside them. My grandparents denied all these requests like bureaucrats following due process. As a teenager, I discovered that my family had their own suitcases. One of them contained family photo albums, a blue-striped white shirt that my father wore to his engagement, a colorful assortment of sarees that my mom never wore, and tickets from the 1972 Munich Olympics that my father's pen-friend had sent to him. Unlike the steel trunks, It took me a while to find this suitcase. Within a generation, they had moved from airy surroundings filled with light and people to dingy cupboards that were functional and out of sight. The suitcases had moved to the suburbs. They'd make trips to the city once in a while during a clean-out or to satiate the indiscriminate curiosity of a teenager.