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Memories
Computer montage
©2012 Charlene Brown
When my sister asked me to paint a picture of our childhood
home, I decided to compile a QR code-derived arrangement of dozens of tiny pictures mounted on a watercolour painting. It was to be a very cutting-edge, 21st
century design of family photos from the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. Here is what happened instead…
It turned out I was the only person in my generation or the
next generation of our family who could find any photo albums from the old
days, and I didn't have 'dozens' of photos taken inside or near the house. Everyone's photos had been de-cluttered or stashed or had otherwise become
at least temporarily inaccessible. So I decided that this layout, pretty much
along the lines of a regular photo album, might be of more interest.
Technical note: The newer photos (only 50-60 years old) were
sort of in colour, so for consistency, I rendered them all into gray scale,
then sepia.
