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Sound piece "I’m Perfectly Fine Without You" by Daisy Patton is an ongoing project that discursively explores the perspectives of children of absent fathers through their own memory. A colle...
We don’t really have a great relationship…but I’m okay with that. I’m okay with that, but it’s also a little f...
It’s difficult to think, you know, how much do I owe my parents? What should I—what should I give up for them? I still haven’t resolved it…o...
You know, I don’t know if this is going to affect me. But surprisingly it did, you know. It just–it fit everything together that I didn’t kn...
You know, “why can’t you have the time for me?” and “why don’t you care enough not to be drunk around me?̶...
I technically do have him there for me, and he was there, I guess, some of the time. But I mean…I really only remember the absence. It...
They always seem to want to redeem him, you know, try to like make him into someone I do want to get to know. But it only makes it worse, an...
When anybody says like, asks me questions about my “mommy and daddy” or my “mom and dad” or “your parents,R...
I think I wanted him cuz I was supposed to, but when I actually think of who my father is, like, I would not want him around more because we...
Why are you trying to pull me away? I’m perfectly fine without you. https://archive.org/download/IPFWY_JM/JM.mp3
What is there to say for a guy who’s never around, who you’ve talked to maybe three times, and your only memory is a horrible on...
The most heart-wrenching thing for me is that it was my father’s decision. That my mother said please don’t, I will never talk a...
There should be good memories, but there just aren’t any. Guess that’s something I’ll always have and unfortunately will n...
But that name is obviously not the same name of the guy that I grew up with. http://archive.org/download/WYfullfile/WYMaster.mp3
You feel like if you have a biological parent they would want to get to know who their children are? It’s so impersonal, like even tho...
I’m not ready to be okay with what happened. I’m not ready to forgive–I’m not ready to…to reward him, you know...
I think it remains an unresolved issue and probably always will create some sort of structural weakness in me… https://archive.org/dow...
From an early age, I was not able to dream in the same ways or to think about life in such a positive way as many of the kids that were just...
Um, my mom’s told me that when I was little I used to ask where he was, and it broke her heart because she didn’t want to tell m...
I am not your daughter. You didn’t have anything to do with raising me…You didn’t try to contact us for 14 years… ht...
I rather he die than I say any of the things I thought about him. Because I don’t want to–I feel like it’s too late for hi...
I don’t remember having a lot of anger, but I do remember the fights. https://archive.org/download/IPFWY_YO/YO.mp3
His absence was just as formative as his presence. And it’s just…it’s so forced. http://archive.org/download/RIfullfile/RI...