An Origin Story

I've always liked to have walls covered with images. 

In high school, while others gathered memories in scrapbooks, I pinned mine to my walls and ceilings. Programs to shows, maps of places we'd been, pictures of friends and family, stuff brought back from dad's business trips...all found a spot on my walls. I was a frequent flier to the local video stores to raid their used posters. Those became ceiling decorations.

It wasn't until a couple of years ago, with a teen who'd been diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder and a penchant for opening about a million windows on the internet and seems to be able to track what's happening with all of them that I began to see similarities to my old room. She's happiest with major input happening. I generally have a laptop or something doing while watching television or something. Ok so she got it from me.....

Her daddy has the focus of the Gods damn him. I wish I could concentrate enough to finish the million ideas that swirl around my head like cartoon birds. I get great beginnings, but very little follow through to completion.

It's been only recently, going through the papers of my recently deceased mother that I began to compare her books and papers to the digital detritus of today. Will people only know me from my digital footprint later on, as paper and writing in pen and ink is rare anymore?

So my old website, Imagecollectors, is taking a new shape once I get the domain figured out. Imagecollectors.online will be a place where I can work on my literary images as well as my photographic and digital art. I've been offline for the past year while things in our lives have settled and taken some sort of new shape and I didn't like the idea that some people had that - because I had no site I was somehow not a legit photographer or artist. 

Ok fine. 

I hope you enjoy.   

Julie