Thanks to Joan for writing such a thoughtful synopsis of what I have done in my 25 years of scrapbooking, and my 10 years with Creative Memories. I am so humbled. LJ
Sketches of Laura’s Creative Memories
In a studio filled with light, she traces her family through
the centuries. She has become, by
default, an archivist. A few feet away
where she paints, sits an entire corpus of documentation: certificates of
births, deaths and marriages, passports, scrapbooks and keepsakes. Here are the
musical scores her father performed in dinner jackets, a theatre program, her
mother’s recipes, Christmas card lists and her brother’s travels.
She has documented her mother’s wartime
telegrams, her son’s travels, graduations and her 25th wedding
anniversary – evidence of achievements that will not be forgotten. Her Father’s world war coins are buried in an
art project table in her son’s elementary school.
Her studio is also big enough to contain family and friend’s
photographic archive, neatly archived in her much marveled and admired
penmanship. Here is her brother in Vietnam , the
other brother traveling the world in hiking shorts. Her mother Helen in chic home-tailored clothes,
Esther Williams a much loved heroine framed in a tantalizing swimsuit.
Laura in her younger days, playing with Maggie, simply
labeled “Maggie and Me.” In her college
days, photographs of lying on the grass looking at the sky. Her artistic genius turned humble black and
white prints into rich color. Sepia
faded pictures of her family transformed into a pictorial record of vivid
family life. A decade of creative
memories remembered in pages, frames, albums of rare three-generation family posing
for half forgotten feelings.
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