Ruby Red:

You’re here now, but maybe later you’ll have gone away. You wouldn’t even be looking at me. Then maybe later you’ll be out the door! Then you’ll be on the sidewalk and working and at coffee shops and making paintings, and then maybe you’ll be in Africa! You’ll be underwater! You’ll be in a submarine! Then you’ll come to my house and you’ll bring me oranges because you know I can’t resist fruit—you aren’t even aware, are you? You just always do the right thing to make me love you without even knowing, then I come off looking like I’m just trying to impress you. Because I’m enthused by everything you’re saying and doing because it’s all perfect, it’s everything I want.

From “Dreaming Inside the Lover’s Eye”, a play by Chana Porter. Photography by Eliza Laytner.

I worked on this show—Chana’s Division III (senior thesis)—during my freshman year of college. It sticks with you.

“It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.”