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Art And LIfe With Melissa OGara

January 9th, 2022

Art And LIfe With Melissa OGara

Melissa, please kick things off for us by telling us about yourself and your journey so far.
When my kids were born, time seemed to speed up in a way I never imagined. I wanted to stop time – or pause it so that I could save and savor each stage of life my kids were in. I wanted a way to ensure that I would remember the moment in my back yard where my son was giggling while playing with his trucks, and the sun came through the trees and lit up his smiling face. I wanted to remember when my son would give my daughter a hug to make her stop crying. Because as every mom knows, these moments are fleeting, and we can only depend on our still shots in our mind if we don’t have a camera to capture it. So I turned to my camera. I started taking pictures of the every day – of feelings rather than posed pictures (though I took many of those too).

For Christmas gifts every year, I gathered my favorite “captures” and designed calendars for family. The enthusiastic response...