Falling back in Love with My Arts

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My name is Kerina Wabasse, I am 20 years old. I live in Webequie with my parents and four brothers in a big house. We recently had a new porch built this past summer by my grandpa. It was fun and exciting to be a part of that because we were helping each other complete something as a family.

We only see my mom’s parents/my grandparents once or twice a year. We had so many laughs when we were building the porch. I would’ve taken pictures if I had a camera but my camera was out of commission so we are just cherishing the memories.  I am currently working with Webequie Telecommunications/K-Net in Sioux Lookout.

When I first started writing I wasn’t writing poetry. I was writing what came to mind. All the content was meant to be lyrics for a song that maybe one day I could record. But as I read over what I was writing, it all made sense, the words, right in place of the paragraph. I stopped writing for a while. I just recently started again because I had found my old notes from years ago and it reminded me of how much I use to just love writing, writing about anything that came to mind in my own little world. The only thing I didn’t stop doing was taking photos and videos. I was always taking pictures of anything and with most people’s permissions to take pictures of them.

I was set to just take photos or videos if I was asked to.  You see: when I was just at a very young age (I was about 9), we had this old film camera that took pictures, and the first picture I’ve took was a photo of my grandparents who live here in Webequie heading out on the boat. Ever since then I’ve been taking pictures, I had upgraded from a Kodak film camera to a disposable camera to a digital camera through all these years.

I saved up to buy my own camera, which was pretty amazing for me because I got to say “This is my camera.”  I shared my camera with my brothers, but they only wanted to play around with it and not take photos of anything except the ceiling.

Those are one of the many things I love doing. I love to play guitars (acoustic and electric) and might I add I play a nice rhythm. I have one acoustic guitar and two electric guitars. I play whatever comes to mind which are my own practices or something I’ve wrote myself years ago because I wrote whatever came to mind and sometimes it would sound like a good poem which could be turned into a song if you give it all you’ve got. I guess most of the songs I play are rock alternative or sometimes it would just be a melody from a song.

I learn by just listening to the rhythm of the song and count how many strums there are in the song. I first learned to play a keyboard maybe 10 years ago, which was around the time when I took my first photo. I am hoping to get a violin within the next couple months.

Kerina Wabasse