Memorial Art

Calendars Maya calendar

How To Commission Valx

Valx Memorial Art Services

Valx Memorial Art Sampler

Honoring The Dead

fky2.gif (47447 bytes)

How To Commission Valx for Memorial Art

	1. Because funeral homes sell grave plots. etc, often , prior a death, they are involved from the beginning to the end. They are in the business of providing more than just a spot in the ground near a shady tree for the dead. You can ask your funeral home agent to commission Valx to create the art.
	2. On sudden death whereby no plot or plans have been previously decided and paid for, the family is charged with the duty of funeral arrangements. In these instances it might be quicker to contact Valx directly, and commission the art yourself. If this is the case, please read the "Introduction to Valxt Art Bundled Services." below. If you agree to accept our terms, email dpreader@yahoo.com . Include your name, phone number and the date artwork must be completed. We will either email or call you. It time permits and Valx accepts the commission, you'll receive a quote of the cost and upon a downpayment made through Paypal, you'll receive instructions concerning what facts are required about the deceased, and how to prepare photographs and how to submit them to Valx. Once a agreement is reached on the final draft, the image files can be sent directly to the printer of Memorial cards, large prints, posters, etc.
	up

Introduction to Valx Art Bundled Services

	1. Create in a timely manner, a classy, interesting, and spiritually influenced image using photographs from family members of the deceased, to be printed on Memorial Cards, and/or on other media. The image is also included as the cover page for a slideshow presentation.
	2. Create, design, arrange other photos of the deceased into a properly formatted presentation for Internet and Digital Frame viewing. Offer both guidance and assistance in the creation of a Frame Channel on the Internet, whereby family members may not only download the collection of photos of the deceased into Digital Frames, but to also create the means so that any family member and friends with Internet access, can upload photographs into the Frame Channel Presentation.
	3. Over a longer periods of time, assist in the management of Frame Channels of the deceased, and to assist in the building of hyperlinks to other Frame Channels of the dead belonging to the same family. This will, in time, with little effort, create an ever lasting, and useful family tree whereby dead family members can be grouped in such a way that family members can download a batch file of Frame Channels at one time, keeping the family together in a virtual world in a very real way.
	4. Optionally build a new Lightbox(s) made from the wood of your choice, that is used to illuminate image(s) as described in number one above, in any size up to 16x20 inches. To assist and to work with printers of larger hard copy prints of the deceased. The printers may any one of your choice, recommended by a funeral home, or our printer in Fremont, CA, that has been tried and tested.
	5. What we don't do: is the actual printing. Nor do we offer mailing services of Memorial Invitations to the family. We do not assist in burying or the cremations of the dead. We "WILL" work with your funeral homes or others to assure that Valx art is completed and delivered in accordance to the timeline of those in charge.
	6. When Valx is commissioned to create art, the person or family that hires Valx, will become the sole owner of said artwork Valx does not claim any legal right to the commissioned art. Valx will not grant any license to third parties. However, if the commissioned art in the form of any media is not paid for in full, Valx will assume ownership and all legal rights to the image(s), for the purpose of recovering losses.
	7. Valx retains the right to refuse the commission for any purpose that need not be disclosed. Usually a refusal occurs due to work loads and the inability to meet invitation mail out dead lines. Notice of a refusal is stated immediately. We will not accept a commission, then back out and not deliver at the last minute. Neither will Valx subcontract to other capable artist, the work you have commissioned her to performed. Legal documents must be signed by both parties so that what the final agreement is, is clearly understood .
	8. Finally it must be stated that all efforts to create art for the family, which they can be proud of and cherish forever, is made in good faith. Draft copies of art and or concepts of what it will look like are discussed before final drafts are produced for the printers. It is the practice of Valx to create at least three ideas and or drafts to be reviewed, before the actual image(s) are produced. The rule "Buy As Is" may be used to protect Valx from the indecision's of family members. Nor will Valx accept a scenario whereby a certain family member does like the composition or layout, or the message and demands changes. And then another family does not like the color or texture and request changes be made. If none of first (three)drafts are accepted, Valx will refuse the commission and refund the down payment, minus dollars for the hours spent on the job.
	up

Memorial Webs and Frame Channels (Honoring The Dead)

The greatest truth of life is that eventually our mortal earth ship we call the human body will die. When one that we love or have been friends with, die, we are hurt, saddened and begin to miss the companionship of their soul. Much has been done to comfort the living. Much has been done to bury the dead. However, as you probably know, it doesn't seem much is being done to protect the memory of their life after death. Valx wants to change that. Valx believes the dead can be remembered, honored and cherished using the available technologies of today. Quite like thoughtforms that bind themselves to the electromagnetic forces of this planet to become the silent voice, the dead can be reborn in a virtual world built by the ones still alive.

The dead can be reborn in a virtual world built by the ones still alive. " Or they can live on....Sure they can! This idea holds incredible possibilities and in time will be expanded upon and marketed by those of you who read this.

Why is it webs like misplace have been so popular? It is because many people need to communicate with their peers. Personal web pages allow an individual to be seen and heard. It allows interaction and supports a means so an adult or child can become apart of the whole, sharing happiness, thoughts, fears, and often anxiety. These virtual communities become quite large indeed.

Now finally, let us ask ourselves the questions. Why can't an eternal "earth cementary" be created with the use of photo images with a little searchable text, for the dead? People die everyday. They should not be forgotten With alittle guidance, anyone of us can understand the importance of, and successfully contribute to, a place (A Frame Channel Network) where the ones we love who have died can fly like the phoenix into an everlasting, virtual kingdom managed by a "Foundation" that will exist of hundreds of years. Relatives and friends from all over the world can log into the "Online Necropolis" to remenience as they view the pictures of their father-in-law, husband, fishing buddy, etc., etc;, etc.. This would be equal to a visit to the gravesite to honor the dead.

If you can't grab the immensity of this idea, let's explore a few examples:

1. A hundred years from now a person can view the Channel of a great grandmother, grandfather, uncles and aunts. For many reasons we must presume that to understand our own vitality, health and lineage, it will always be of value and may even be spiritually satisfying, to look into the face of a relative whose been died for a long time. To learn of their hobbies and homes, pets and old bones.

2. In the near future when a death in the family occurs ..... It's a birthday, Christmas or for whatever reassume. The person receives your package at a party or through the mail. When it is opened, they find a Digital Frame and instructions on how to download images. Or, images have been downloaded into the Digital Frame prior the giving the gift. The Digital Frame is beautiful with a lustrous cherry wood finish. It is hung on a wall or set up on a table. The receiver of the gift is unaware of what;s to be displayed. The switch is flipped and up comes a bright, seeable image, a artist image of..... a person they cared for that has recently died. The header page dissolves into a continuous flow of photographs. Let's believe this deceased husband can again experience peace in the livingroom, near the holiday tree. Let us believe the wife enjoys this unexpected present within a present. The pain we experience when those close to us, die, should not be healed by burying the memories of life with them. Believing that they are with us through the day and still share in you.. is not shameful or wrong. When you bury the dead in your heart and mind, you only burden the spirit and thereby create a barrier. By the act of displaying his image, and by the act of keeping alive the memories, celestial doors are opened as your homage is rewarded. .... Other family members arrived to celebrate the holiday. How delighted they are to see Frank again.

3. In a lessor degree, the history and the genealogy of a family is recorded and preserved for all time, to the end of eons. Within this mass of documented existence, search words (in the database) group the dead into specify categories that are based on accomplishments, major life interest, occupation, and so on. Let's us say, like Frank. who would sell his soul to go fishing have commonalties with other fishermen and fishing hobbyist. On a very bad and lonely day,they might be compelled to log into the wireless network and retrieve a portion of channels of men and women who also lived a life with the passion of sinker and hook. Believe me, please. There is a greater connection established through images, then there are through text. Many photos and contrive images tell the story in a simple language, where no vocabulary exist in any one font cpi;f ever explain. We as human may prefer a connection based on the seeable image of a being, then what has been written for them. Valx sees a future where wireless Digital Frames transcend the above 1 and 2 to become the notified of death in a family. Foundations dedicated to this cause not only are the keepers of all passed lives. but are the bearer of the terrible news. Alas.... we that are not dead have the opportunity to construct our own virtual gravesite, and upload images ourselves that portray how we wish to be seen, and remembered after death. The family album of cherished photos is not a sustainable media for the archive of one's life.

4. Valx believes the time is near when Digital Frames will be used to display the life pictures of the deceased during the Funeral and Memorial Services..... There may even be a revoltion in the grave plot itself. Compact, battery operated Weatherproof Digital Frames may replace the tombstones and/or plates in the ground of earthly gravesites. A person who goes to the graveyard to pay their respects and lay a few roses on the grave, may be greeted by a motion sensor activated voice of the dead, along with a slideshow of images of their life....

Much more can be written on this concept. . . .