Documenting

I've found my family's stash of old photo albums, mostly all black and white pictures tucked into photo corners stuck to fragile paper pages. I've spent a lot of time looking through tons of these beautiful, random, funny pictures. They aren't just family group shots in front of the Grand Canyon or at birthday parties, but of my grandparents and long lost aunts and uncles and friends standing on the porch, posing in bathing suits, looking at new cars, etc.

So I got to thinking a lot about documenting and leaving something behind. If no one was there to take all these random pictures, those people and their relationships and beauty would be lost. All these people are still alive because they took the time to leave themselves behind. It's scary to think about enough time passing where after you are gone, no one will know about you and your life. Memories can only be carried so far before they fade. Anyway, I hope that I can do something for future people to find and keep and hold that says I was here and had a fun life and made connections with others.

My series will be a collection of little doodley drawings of some of these snapshots I've found. Eventually it would be neat to put them all together on a wall in a sort of homage collage. I don't think you necessarily need to know the people to have a connection to them so I hope you enjoy.