This layout will be contained in a box,yes a locked cedar box and will be displayed only at Christmas or other special family occasions.It will be my gift to my family past,present and future.
Why so special ? Well it has been my experience that no matter how nice a layout/diorama is after a while it just becomes part of the furniture.Nobody really sees it anymore except guests or visitors.However, on the other hand ,only seeing something every once in a while will help bring fresh( if not new eyes) to an old piece.Also I don’t want to encase it in a tomb like structure, even of glass, but I wish to have it open to natural light, but without the dust, for those who may want to take pictures.
As public as my other stuff will be this will be only for private family or personal viewing.Why do it this way ? Simply I would like something that I made survive for a while after I am gone to the “Happy Hunting Ground” as a gift to my children and the young at heart.I have heard to many stories about how Grandpa Fred’s or Uncle Phil’s layout ended up in the garbage shortly after his death.Too big,no room,tired of looking at it sit there gathering dust etc…etc…
I know you say nothing survives forever ! No one knows that better than I and besides when I am gone who really gives a *** ? I surely won’t ! but you know somehow I do and I don’t mind admitting it.Ego you say ?well artists usually do have some of that it is true,Why else would we do what we do ?
