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I'm Sorry Flower
— A small version —
About the I’m Sorry Flower:
This November 2015 version of the small I’m Sorry Flower traces its roots back to a July 2001 reduced-size copy of a September 2000 full-size digital versions of the I’m Sorry Flower. The first full-size digital versions of the I’m Sorry Flower were made back in April 1998.
In April of 1998, I drew the original pencil version of the I’m Sorry Flower on a piece of note paper, as a doodle. As I drew the doodle, I was thinking about how I had hurt the feelings of my dear friend, Salma, and how sorry that made me feel. I wanted to do something special for her, so I used that doodle as a model to create the first digital version of the I’m Sorry Flower. By the third draft version, of a work still very much in progress, I could not wait any longer. I sent my e-mail apology, along with a copy of that early version of the I’m Sorry Flower, to my friend. As it turns out, it was a good thing that I had sent Salma that early draft copy of the I’m Sorry Flower.
Scroll down to see Additional Notes, and an early draft of the I’m Sorry Flower.
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Additional Notes
Additional Notes
— About my art —
The first two digital versions of the I’m Sorry Flower were lost when I accidentally formatted the wrong hard drive, in about May of 1998. I also lost several other art pieces that had not been backed up yet, and I lost a set of new web pages that I had planned to upload to
MACJR’S Mini-Verse²,
when they were ready. To this day, that 1998 format disaster is my biggest loss of digital works and data.
To me, at the time, that format disaster felt like a major loss, and I still wish that I had some of those lost art pieces back. As for those lost web pages, perhaps that was for the best. The structural design that I had used for the new pages was doomed to lose favor, anyway (in fact, I think frame were already on their way out, I just hand not gotten the message yet). Frame pages were cool, but they had a big flaw that made them less than desirable when other people linked to the wrong frame, or worse, they linked your entire site into a frame at their site. The search engines of that time hated frame pages too. Soon, no one was using frame pages anymore.
As for the I’m Sorry Flower, I lost all of my original digital drafts in that hard drive format disaster. If I had not sent a copy of the third draft of the I’m Sorry Flower to my dear friend, Salma Massoud, that art piece would have also been completely lost, forever, like those other lost artworks.
Fortunately, Salma still had the copy of the I’m Sorry flower that I had sent to her, not long before, in an e-mail message, and she sent a copy of it back to me (this was before I started using web based e-mail, so when the hard drive was reformatted, I lost all my Inbox and Sent folder content too).
The third draft version of the I’m Sorry flower, shown above, has had the background color changed to match this page’s background color, and I have added my copyright stamp to it, but this version of the I’m Sorry flower is essentially how it looked when I sent it to Salma, all those years ago.
The I’m Sorry Flower has been worked, and reworked, many times since its return to me, back in 1998. There are full-sized versions, and small versions, all of which exist because I was able to get a copy of that third draft copy back.
November 29, 2015
Michael A. Crane, Jr.
Artist/Webmaster/Writer
This page last updated on: December 31, 2015
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