A Kindergarten Teacher’s Retirement

21. March 2008 by Anthony Lindner.

Someone I know recently asked me if I could scan some pictures. The pictures were from yearbooks of an early childhood development center. In the pictures were students from a teacher who is now retiring. I had no problem completing the task for this person. After scanning the roughly 20 pages or so, a strange idea popped into my head. In the yearbook’s were individual black and white pictures of all the students for a particular year. I started to arrange these individual pictures in a flower shape. I started with the actual flower pedals, working my way to the center. In the center of the flower I placed a picture of the retiring teacher. I then created a stem and leaves in the same manner. Now this was still all in black and white and the effect isn’t what I thought it would be. I then started to experiment with lightly coloring the individual pictures, which, in my opinion, really made the overall image start to “pop.” I showed the person who asked me to do the scanning, and she seemed to really like it. I find instances like this funny. My original intention was to just help by scanning the pictures. I ended up finding inspiration and motivation to try to create something. I hope the teacher likes it, I don’t know the teacher, but anyone who is retiring I kind of envy.

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