For way too long I’ve been meaning to do a post about Matthew and Sandy Lynn Davis, the wonderful couple of Treatzone. (Hi Sandy, sorry this is so belated!)  We first beheld their sweetness via a Poppytalk marketplace forever ago… it was their “altered portraits” that I immediately coveted, each and every one. I share a love for old photographs myself, with an ever-growing collection of them, mostly, lately, thanks to Annie’s antique shop hunting skillz.

There’s something about the fact that these were real people, as real as you and your arms and hands and face right now, and through these dusty old photographs that someone cared too much about to throw away or burn, these real people who came and went can still confront us today, long after their passing, or maybe, even, while they’re still alive, somewhere.  And we all have the same end, like it or not.  Except our Y2K portraits won’t look as cool as these do.

Whoah, I just thought of that scene in Dead Poets Society.

I feel the need to quote Ecclesiastes.  But, ah… I’ll just suggest you all go and read it through.  When you do, by the way, please keep in mind that the original Hebrew word usually translated “vanity” or “meaninglessness” in our modern translations actually doesn’t really mean those things.  It’s “vapor.”  Vapor of vapors!  Under the sun, all is vapor.  (Sorry to get scholarly, I’ve been reading it and this book recently, which I must recommend).

One of these days I’m going to start drawing and painting on some of my photographs.

ANYways, do yourself a flavor and be sure to check out the Treatzone Etsy shop + site, full of so many good things.