Shadow Puppet Storyteller

Art Restoration

My uncle asked me once, if I could choose a new career -- any, regardless of whether I had experience in it -- what would I want it to be in? And I answered readily, Art conservation. I just have a romantic notion about it, certainly. Very much like my imagined cloistered monk illuminating manuscript pages over a lifetime. There's a desire for that application of beauty, or uncovering of beauty that a single person can accomplish through the careful work of his/her own hands.

I also had an idea, not so long ago, of a business which would digitally conserve heirlooms in such a perfectly complete, 3-D form of imaging, that more people could feel comfortable donating or selling off long-held family heirloom items because the ability for future geenerations to see and appreciate the item would not be lost.

And I have since come across the work of Cultural Heritage Imaging, a California non-profit, experimenting with all the potentially affordable ways to make cultural artifacts available to people all over the globe. I am impressed