Have you ever opened up the closet door and looked at a big box of prints.
Only to close it , thinking one day you'll 'get to it'.
Thinking maybe the next time it rains or maybe that would make a good winter project to tackle?
Time passes by ... and that day never seems to come along.
Life in general has a way of derailing our 'good intentions'.
Unfortunately time doesn’t stand still for any one.
As it passes; our 'visual inheritance' is deteriorating.
Our stories are being lost as memories fade or people pass on.
Here is your first Action step:
If you don’t get a chance to do anything this week but this ONE thing,
( very important step )
Bring in all your boxes of prints from any outdoor storage units and put in a dark closet in the house.
The ever fluctuating temperatures / humidity speed up the deterioration process.
Between this and having my prints done through cheap labs back in the day ( cheap labs = poor inks )
I now have a box of my children prints that the images are literally vanishing from the print surface much like those old polaroid prints.
As a Mother I am deeply saddened to discover that few are salvageable and I have little to pass on to my son's families.
