I rotated through artwork quickly – taking just 1 shot for each item, unless there was a detail I wanted to remember (like how she added an adorable ring and meticulously placed little flowers on my dress in her art show piece entitled, “The Prettiest Mom At The Ball”. I simply laid a piece of my seamless backdrop paper on the table and topped it off with a bit of a masking tape. Moirai Compositor to collage the images.Seamless background paper (I used “Bone” by Savage).So… what’s a photographer to do? Photograph it. I also would like to preserve work for my daughter in a way that she won’t think I’m the craziest person in the world. Why keep all of them and overfill your own life with containers, storage and stuff that you can’t enjoy and look at because your wall space and decor won’t allow it? If my mom had handed me 10 containers of my art I would have laughed her all the way to the curbside trash can.
What are you going to do with these? Save them as momentos to give your child when they move out? Let’s do a little math though, exaggerated on the high end, for emphasis. I had 145 pieces of art photographed from this year of Pre-School, which I realize is largely a hands on type of year. Anywhere from 5-10 years of creating, depending on how artsy your child is. Now… say you save all of this artwork for your kids. I’m constantly gabbing with other moms about how we “bury” some of our precious darlings’ creations in the trash so our dear little sweeties can’t possible think that their touch of scribble on an old receipt isn’t cherished beyond belief.
Each piece, well, let’s be honest, most pieces hold a special place in our hearts. Perhaps you have a bulletin board that they get tacked to occasionally or a refrigerator adorned with colorful renderings of unicorns. The beautiful piles of artwork stashed, almost falling over, cascading all over the kitchen, leaning in the foyer, meandering around the laundry room.
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