People may get sick of my voice, but I don't. It's an artistic resource for voice-overs that is always readily available and really easy to work with. Besides, it's fun. This started out as a project of taking a still from a movie and commenting it out. We had orginally chosen a couple of out-there films from which to take stills, but there was To Kill a Mockingbird sitting there staring back at be, from behind Man And a Movie Camera and The Tenant.

The first still I liked was a picture of a slightly chunky girl running away with her lunch pail. Something about it just got to me. Instead of just working with the single frame, I opted to work with the whole scene--not really cutting much out, just layering it--to make a point.

There she was, the all-american 7-year-old daughter, off to have lunch under her favorite tree with her 2 best friends and talk about what 7-year-old girls talked about back then. In contrast, there is Scout, a bullheaded 6-year-old right on her tail. It's Scout, a motherless daddys-little-strongwilled-girl, chasing down a boy from class, and all-out fighting as boys will fight, complete with the jeering, circling crowd.

Who cares if Scout was already the dressed-in-white lead...it's all of the girls with pails, that tell a story, to me.