Context Statement
Jackie, Becoming old is lonely, reliving your life’s most greatest memories through visual recognition before giving them to loved ones to carry on your legacy.
How will you be seen and remembered when your gone?
50 years from now how will you see and remember your most memorable moments in your life?
2 questions that we don’t actively really think about however probably subconsciously somewhere have perhaps crossed our minds. Let me bring this to the front of your mind, because it is important to take the steps to preserve your life now as it unfolds.
We live in such a digital world now. In just the 30 years that I have been alive so much has changed. We went from processing film and turning them into prints to frame or slot into albums to whipping out our phones and taking 10 or more images of the 1 thing. Only to be stored onto a phone, that can be lost, stolen or broken.
If you think of it, you might back your digitial memories of your life up onto a hard drive and then what will happen to that hard drive? How will you retrieve your memories from that hard drive in 50 years time? I guarantee you it wont even work. If by some miraculous chance it did, would we even have a usb port to still access it? Think back to just 20 years ago when we were using a floppy disk, who can open that now? We flood our phones with thousands of photos how are we even going to find the memories we want to remember and pass on? How have you or are you going to preserve these times in your life that are irreplaceable?
Can you remember your life in detail 20 years ago during your childhood? Imagine wanting to remember and see that moment your baby came into the world in 50 years time, as your life is coming to an end and all you have left is time on your own, with your thoughts.
I wanted to create this artwork to relay this important message I have! Please make sure you print those special memories in your life, better yet have them taken by a professional who have the knowledge and knowhow to turn these blueprints of your life and legacy into artwork. That way they will be preserved. These are once in a lifetime memories so that you can look and relive them in the years to come when you NEED to.
When your 80 years old, your children have grown up and had children of there own who also have children of their own too, sitting in your shoebox of a room, with nothing but your thoughts, make sure you have your albums of your life by your side, or your box full to the brim, or those memories hanging on the wall. I assure you it will bring you nothing but happiness and will be the only thing that can bring you back to those times you will miss dearly. When the time comes and your life comes to a close your children and children’s children, can hold them close and remember the moments from their perspective of the person you were and the special times you shared.
Make sure you are seen and remembered!
By Brooke Alie at Make Believe Photography