Life Story - Sterling H.

Life Story Number: 
109
Name: 
Sterling H.
Life Story video: 
Location: 
Norman , OK
United States
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recording date: 
Tue, 11/16/1999
transcript: 
Alright, my name is Sterling H. and I'm a painting major at University of Oklahoma and I'm moving next semester because I've lived in Oklahoma all my life and it gets sickening after a while, and it's real flat. The people are flat. And I would like to go somewhere else. And I'm moving to Oregon, Eugene, Oregon with a friend who goes to NYU. And I started painting when I was 16 and I've been doing that ever since. And I like to paint. Some day I would like to do a show at least, i like to show my work, but Oklahoma, if you stick around here and paint or whatever you do you'll end up painting teddy bears for old women I think. So i'd like to at least get out, but I don't wanna go to New York City, New York City's bad. But I would like to go west or north. So I'm going north and hopefully I'll like it and won't come back but if not I'll be back here in the fall. And I'm Native American. Seminole and Crete. I'm from Holdenville, Oklahoma which is a town, population of 5000 people. I grew up there all my life, I never lived anywhere else, until I moved to Norman. And I keep getting sick where if I'm here too long. i hope that I can agree with a place and stay there, instead of keep leaving. I guess that's it.