"Slide? What's a slide?"
One of my most daunting projects of the summer is to clean out and re-organise my studio. Storage space was getting pretty tight and then I realised that I hadn't done a good "sort and purge" in ages. Afterall, how many art magazines am I supposed to keep. Can I throw out the Art Forum magazines from 2003 yet?
Anyway, in process of dumping and shredding and filing things, I pulled out my slide binder. And dear lord it's enormous. Enormous and covered in dust. I literally cannot remember the last time I sent slides to anyone for any reason. I'm thinking the last time was back in 2007 maybe?
So the question is: Now that's we everyone has gone all space-age sci-fi with our imagery, what the hell am I supposed to do with this enormous binder filled with nearly 1000 slides that's just siting here clogging up my bookcase?
5 comments:
Keep it! I have slides from 2002 that I have already scanned, but I am keeping them because, well, you never know....
Collage?
Kesha, You could always scan them. Then you could do some neat things with the actual slides. I know a person who makes designer purses and totes with old slides. And you might make one, very striking collage with them.
"Dear lord" is right. I just did the same thing: Purged, dumped, shredded, filed, cleaned and reorganized. But the slides I'm keeping. They're in a file cabinet. For now.
I'm in the process of organizing now. Like you, I found an old, dust-covered binder full of slides. I'm going to look into scanning them or having them scanned, since I don't have a scanner.
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