A Warm Melody on a Slow Sunday Afternoon

Lichelle Salvador

12th Grade

Angelo Rodriguez High School

Solano County

The artwork that I created is a specific core memory and feeling that, whenever I feel at my worst, I think of. It’s a portrait of my older sister playing the guitar on her bedroom floor while I watch and listen to her play. Ever since I was young I remember her playing, and the constant sound of the guitair playing. Slow Sundays felt different than other days, the slow and carefree days with perfect weather, and we would be content just in each other’s presence in silence. She would play my favorite songs, from video game songs to oldies that my dad would listen to, they would never cease to make me so relaxed it’d make me cry. At times I needed to feel the warmth that I felt on those days, on days that I can’t seem to find the same warmth, I think of these special moments. Now she’s moved out of the house, and the house feels a little colder, and as the winter months come I’ve been thinking about these moments even more. In times I feel like it’s hard to make it through another day, I think about how grateful I am to have such a close relationship with my family and my siblings, and I believe it’s made me how I am today, and what keeps me going.