This month our group theme or prompt is the word Display. When I am stumped with how to interpret a prompt I tend to go the literal route for the meaning of a word. So, by
Google’s definition: dis·play/disˈplā/
Verb: Make a prominent exhibition of (something) in a place where it can be easily seen.
My definition: To show something in public view.
All this week I pondered how I was going to photograph {Display}. I could easily photograph my mountainous display of laundry needing to be washed or better yet, the nicely folded piles of laundry sitting in the chair next to my bed that I haven’t yet put away from last week. These would really be {Displays} of my humanness, my letting some things go. Instead of boring all of you with my dirty or nicely but not yet put away laundry (literally) I decided to get my kids involved in interpreting this prompt.
This is how it went.
“Each of you go choose one thing from your room that you really want me to show me, something you really really want me to take a picture of. But here is the trick…you have to share with Mommy WHY you chose this one thing. O.K., GO!.”
My son ultimately decided on a stack of Ninjago maps that he worked on at school. Not the most interesting to photograph or to show, but….his reasoning for why he wanted to display them was that if we ever got lost from home, we would have a map to help us find our way. He is a brilliant little boy, this one. And don’t you just love how he arranged and displayed his maps for me to see and photograph!
My daughter took a really long time in her room deciding what she wanted to show me. I was a afraid that she was redressing herself into some wild mismatched outfit 
. After much consideration she presented me with her old, worn, lovey that she sleeps with each night. When I asked her why she chose her lovey, she simply said because he is “cuddley” and “because his nose is broken”. Funny enough, she wanted to show me her lovey, but she became really shy when I tried to take pictures of her with lovey. I really thinks this speaks to the specialness of her lovey, it is hers, not something she really wants to share. And that is o.k.
There you have it. These are the things right now that my kids want to show me. The things that they think are important enough to Display around our home. And it’s a good thing because I think in our whole house we have maybe 6 pictures on our wall, but this last comment I’ll save for another day, another post!
Joining me this month are 9 other amazing photographers. Visit the circle by starting with Melissa Deakin | Buffalo NY Family Photographer.
