I'm Perfectly Fine Without You

Daisy Patton

Sound piece "I’m Perfectly Fine Without You" by Daisy Patton is an ongoing project that discursively explores the perspectives of children of absent fathers through their own memory. A collection of tenuous yet emotionally charged recollections, the sole criterion is that their father was missing during childhood, with the only exception being death. The voices of the participants together form a kind of confessional, with you the listener as the recipient of their now unconcealed, personal divulgences.

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We don’t really have a great relationship…but I’m okay with that. I’m okay with that, but it’s also a little frustrating because we have had a good relationship at one point. https://archive.org/download/IPFWY_BC/BC.mp3

Nov 14, 2015

It’s difficult to think, you know, how much do I owe my parents? What should I—what should I give up for them? I still haven’t resolved it…on the one hand, he gave me something in my childhood that nobody else could. But on the other, I don’t think I’m equipped to be able to help […]

Nov 14, 2015

You know, I don’t know if this is going to affect me. But surprisingly it did, you know. It just–it fit everything together that I didn’t know it needed to be fitted together. It just answered a lot of questions that I had inside of me. https://archive.org/download/IPFWY_TA/TA.mp3

Nov 14, 2015

You know, “why can’t you have the time for me?” and “why don’t you care enough not to be drunk around me?” Like…”do you realize how much your actions have warped my life?” Like…”just what makes you think you can throw a little girl down the stairs?” Like, “what makes you think you can do […]

Mar 14, 2013

I technically do have him there for me, and he was there, I guess, some of the time. But I mean…I really only remember the absence. It’s really true, like, I only remember the absence. http://archive.org/download/CRfullfile/CR.mp3

Mar 14, 2013

They always seem to want to redeem him, you know, try to like make him into someone I do want to get to know. But it only makes it worse, and I think they fail to realize that. http://archive.org/download/IRfullfile/IR.mp3

Mar 11, 2013

When anybody says like, asks me questions about my “mommy and daddy” or my “mom and dad” or “your parents,” plural, it just makes me feel funny inside just cuz it makes me feel like people are ignorant, a little bit, and they don’t realize how many single parents there are… http://archive.org/download/NEfullfile/NE.mp3

Mar 11, 2013

I think I wanted him cuz I was supposed to, but when I actually think of who my father is, like, I would not want him around more because we would just argue and he just annoys me. https://archive.org/download/IPFWY_RN/RN.mp3

Mar 10, 2013

Why are you trying to pull me away? I’m perfectly fine without you. https://archive.org/download/IPFWY_JM/JM.mp3

Apr 27, 2012

What is there to say for a guy who’s never around, who you’ve talked to maybe three times, and your only memory is a horrible one from when you were a little kid? There’s not much to say. http://archive.org/download/ARfullfile/ARMaster.mp3

Apr 25, 2012