AMERICAN BEDROOM - Woofermagazine

Mathews Family (Saratoga Springs, Utah)

‘‘Endless possibilities and adventure! We sold our home and just about everything we owned 3 years ago. Little did we know what awaited us on the open road… freedom, unlike anything we had ever had…”

TITLE : AMERICAN BEDROOM

CROWDFUNDING

AUTHOR : BARBARA PEACOCK

After seven years of work, Barbara Peacock is ready to publish “American Bedroom,” a book in which she portrays Americans in their bedrooms. She has traveled all over the country and has managed to capture people in an intimate and almost confessional manner. What she presents us with are a collection of short stories that depict who these people are, creating a map of the diversities that make up the United States.

You can support his crowdfunding campaign in indiegogo HERE

Chloe_age 18 (Lake Worth, Florida)

“I am considered by many to be an old soul. I feel an overwhelming sense of freedom when I am locked away in my bedroom in front of my drum set expressing the part of me I can’t often communicate in words.”

Nicole & Sven _ages 38 & 42 (Atlanta, Georgia)

“We are tattered and distressed, emotionally wiped, just lost a baby, and repairing our relationship. We were made for each other from across the oceans, we found each other.”

Laverne and James_ages 72 & 74 (Big Stone Gap, Virginia)

“Finding love late in life has taught me many lessons including not to be shy or embarrassed by my body. It is freeing to say I am big, bold, and beautiful!”

Treasure_age 27 (Wells, Nevada)

“I’ve discovered my Truth. Tapped into my Highest force.

I’m unstoppable now.”

Cai and Claire_ ages 28 & 29 (Bliss, Idaho)

‘“Dismantle and rebuild (the urge to destroy is a creative urge, a natural reset) build a home in you, a home in me. Together home is always growing, always being redefined-dismantled, and rebuilt. We see each other, we make space for each other. And here, we are always safe inside.”

Micah & Koby_ages 35 & 40 (Omaha, Nebraska)

“Love is accrescent. If you choose to love, there is no end to how big and all-encompassing it can grow. We choose to love each other daily and will keep choosing to love as we push on into the future.”

Pepere_ age 88 (Jay, Maine)

“Every day I get up and I try to be quiet so I don’t wake her. Then, I remember she is not here.”

Mek_age 29 – (Siberian-Yupik Tribe) Anchorage, Alaska

“While my physical parts feel safe among my living space, rested against a pillow, my heart yearns for my home, my community, our land.” ( Nunammi- on the land.)