Thoughts behind the artwork...

The last gallery of SirJohns World contains some of my favorite 'old' images. These images were created on my very first computer, and were done at very low resolution simply to be shared on my site. I was such a computer novice that I did not understand the relationship between screen resolution and print quality. The resolution was so low on these older works that they really could not be printed out for any useful purpose. It wasn't until later that I had a robust computer that was capable of large format, high resolution imagery. Since I have been sharing images on SirJohnsworld for so many years, I have routinely changed the lineup of artwork kept within the galleries. Whenever I have enough artwork to open a new gallery, I tend to look through my collection and cull the older images that no longer mean as much to me. I must also fess up... I have gotten better at what I do over the years. Not all of my images have been keepers! Hey, it happens to everybody that creates. At some point there will be creations that don't stand to the test of time. That said, my final gallery has some of my favorites. Not all of them mind you... but some of them. These particular images I have kept on my site all through the years. They are my very own trip down memory lane. I have long lamented the fact that I cannot reproduce them in print. The image quality would simply fail miserably once they were brought to the printshop. So... they simply hung around SirJohns World... until now! I had wondered what some of them may look like hanging on the wall. It was while thinking that very thought that the idea for this image popped into my head. If I cannot recreate them individually... why not give them new life in their very own museum? I decided that the image would be like an old snapshot out of a newspaper... all but the artwork that is. Despite the fact that they have been hanging around forever, to me they are still vibrant and vital... due in part to the fact that they are like children of mine in a manner of speaking. In other words, the museum itself may be like an old story from long ago... but the art lives on. The fuzzy and rather indistinct people visiting the gallery are a representation of my memory of the people who once viewed them and shared their thoughts with me.

-John Alexander (aka SirJohn)