Its been a busy, social day today. Lunch with friends and meeting new people. A great way to spend a Sunday.

On the art front, its more dilapidated and abandoned buildings, boarded up windows and remnants of lives lived in in the house, with the clothesline still in place.

I’ve begun to use photos I’ve taken of old doors, windows and buildings on Paros as my inspiration for these small paintings now. I’ve been taking photos like these for years, may as well do more than just save them.

Soon I’ll be able to share some photos of my childhood too! A good friend of mine is scanning dad’s slides and I’m seeing photos dad took for the first time. Dad didn’t print out many of his slides, only those he chose to print so he could send them to relatives in Greece, so most of my childhood was recorded on slides I’ve never seen.

I had a slideshow/preview today and I’m excited!!

All up dad left about 1000 slides. I sorted through them while in Athens last and I tossed out a ton dad had bought of buildings in places in Asia he’d visited – they were just postcard type slides. And others which were landscapes in Australia which meant nothing to me, no identifying features. But I’m slowly going to get the rest scanned and sorted and put into some printed photo books. That way I’ll have a book to share with mom and other family.

It’s all very well to have everything in digital form, but sometimes you like to look through albums… However, I much prefer photobooks.

During COVID I put together some photobooks, one for each year pretty since the books I’d made in Australia, from photos I had on my computer. I still have to do 2020-22 … and of course now I’ll have to do the early years in Australia.

Probably the early years of mom and dad from before they met too. And our early years in Greece…

So much to do!!! And they’re not cheap. But I think its worth doing, just one at a time.

z