The 100 Day Project #48

Winning Ticket

Rochester, NY, 2021

The 100 Day Project, Day 48

If I ever win the lottery, I'm buying a Skeeball machine for my home. Full stop.

Growing up, my mom would take my sisters and me to Chuck E. Cheese for our birthday parties. Skeeball was the only game I played on those outings — every single time, without exception. So you can imagine my absolute delight when I visited Seabreeze, our local amusement park here in Rochester, and found an entire bank of them.

I love watching the tickets pour out of the machine. There is something deeply satisfying about it that has nothing to do with what the tickets actually buy, which is always some silly trinket. This collection of tickets won us a tiny, blue, brachiosaurus dinosaur. Some joys are exactly the same at fifty as they were at eight.

About the 100 Day Project: A global creative challenge where thousands of artists share a piece of their practice every single day for 100 days. I'm joining creatives around the world, and I'm excited to bring you along. Each day I'll be sharing one of my photos — some recent, some old, and some from my current project — along with the story behind it: where I was, who I was with, and why I love it.