Southside photos for talk at Delevan. I'm working on my photography for the Delevan Gallery talk. Here are two pictures I took a couple of years ago when I first upgraded to a good digital camera and a tripod. After I started carrying a tripod people thought I was a photographer and sometimes, like these folks, they asked me to take their picture. I tried to find them, but so far, no luck. I really like the hands in the first photo, the blur of motion.

More books.
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Linsey Obermeyer work has been an inspiration for some time. Her newest project is based on attachment. Check out the very interesting articles of clothing in the photos and how they demonstrate this concept. Very fun and honest too. It's not always easy being attached. http://www.lbostudio.com/attach/index.html

Purkinje Fibers. Of all the neurons these have my favorite shape. This image is on wikipedia from the meseo Cajal.

Even more amazing books. Lucile Moroni and Nicholas Jones, book sculptor. Mr. Jones has also done some folding, but I think his sculpted books offer another way to alter books.

More collages in process.

Working on Calvin's Quilt

Elijah Gowin's photos of this Maggie. I love these paper orbs that she plays with her in her backyard. Link to artist statement.

More ideas for collage with the old medical school text books. The background images are from a pair of texts, one on endocrinology and one on obstetrics.

New Pictures of Blue man and Little Asian Blue Man. The wooden-block cell phone by kids. Whose? Mine, maybe. Someone elseses, maybe. Never will know. Love it, either way.

Here's a book I'm working on with some objects inserted, including a wishbone--for my friend Jess, who doesn't know what to wish for, but one day will. And here's a view of another one that I'm making out of a coffee table book of National Geographic nature illustrations. It makes for a colorful display.

More amazing books. The one in the glass jar is by Georgia Russell. The wall of books is by..The diamond back one came from this website. The box of books came from here. I love these and can't wait to do the installation in June at the Upstate Library.

Jennifer Steinkamp: Dervish, 2004, 2005 This is the artist whose work I first saw at the Cleveland Clinic on interview day. It's really stunning. Unfortunately the architecture at the Clinic is so large scale it doesn't have inviting spaces to sit, rest and take in the art they have displayed. But from wherever you are looking at this, I bet you can appreciate how beautiful the pieces are to watch.

Here is a new collage I'm working on. This is a combination of three picture, one of the Syracuse sky, one an angiogram of the kidney, and the third a reflected branch on the pond in the Adirondacks. I like the distinct frames which feel like words in a sentence.

Family portraiture has not really been my thing over the years. But I took a stab at it last summer after seeing the photos of Doug Dubois, a famous local photographer who took up photographing his family in the 1990's. I also like the photos of Sally Mann or http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/mann/index.html Here is a photograph of my cousin Margaret that I had fun taking when last she visited.

I finally got a mac and now have to figure it out. It's a bit of a challenge getting up to date on technology, but what the heck, if I can do med school I ought to be able to figure this out. I just had my first photo accepted for publication, one of the interiors from the abandoned house she crawled into a bit recklessly with help from cousin Margaret.

With one picture accepted, though I'm excited to keep trying. I've got to get back at it now that there's a little break in my schedule between finishing up ob with the baby, baby, baby business, and starting away electives at Dartmouth and Brown.

The sky around here is still absolutely spectacular, but I haven't yet figured out how to take good pictures, so I'm just taking what I can get. You get the general idea.

It's going to be an interesting fall...

More Pictures from the South and Northsides. This picture with the dog is intriguing because the dog is stock still except that he's barking his head off, which makes him look like he has two mouths. This was an interesting garage. They were rebuilding an old Ford inside, putting a new engine it so it would go fast, but rebuilding the body to look as close to original as possible. They let us take pictures, but you could tell we made them a bit uncomfortable. 

Photoshoot with David Perlman, my photography mentor from Lightwork. Sadly he's heading back to Calfornia in a week. I think he's got a bright future in photography. He's an excellent instructor and I will miss him.   We had  avery good time taking picures inside this abandoned house. The light on that day was stunning, and for the first time I came close to understanding Edward Hopper's obsession with light falling on/in buildings. I enjoyed showing David P. around the neighborhood where I'd been taking pictures for the last year . I also intriduced him to the Jerk Hut, best Carribean food in town and one of Syracuse's best kep secrets.  

Pictures from Blodget's photography and healthy schools/peaceful schools project. I had a very good time with the kids there and getting to know Aduke Branch and Jackie Saddler was very fun too. I still don't know what will come of the school and the beautiful library they put in. It would be sad if it got torn down, although given the state of the rest of the school, I would not be surprised. Every time I go over to the west side I learn so much about the community. I still believe that there's no way to make the world a better place without making connections  at the individual level. Those are the tiles lining the hallway outside the library. The buildling just accross the street is very nicely boarded up. In fact, I've never seen a house boarded up so carefully with the boards painted such pristine white. It makes it look like an oversized doll house, a very strange image indeed, especilly in the context of the neighborhood overall.