The surgery went well and I am back home. My spine is held up with titanium pins. Science and medicine are incredible. Now I wait to find out what kind of cancer I have and how it will be treated. Thanks to everyone who has been in touch. Life is good.
I got a real treat in the mail this week, the catalogue of the “Made in Poland: Contemporary Pinhole Photography” exhibition now in its last week at Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University. The images and concepts being explored by these seven Polish artists is among the most creative and exciting I’ve seen in years. Each artist goes well beyond the intrinisic exploration of the pinhole camera into personal realms of their lives, sharing experiences and approaches to life and art that can alter our own perceptions as viewers.
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A call for entries came in the mail a couple of weeks ago for a “Self-Portrait” exhibition at a local gallery. It had come the day after I happened to be taking some photos of myself and I decided I would submit something. The show is an annual one and I put something in it last year. Last year’s entry started out to be a pinhole camera made as a mask of my face, with one of my eyes containing the pinhole. I really liked the idea of myself as a pinhole camera, but my execution of it was embarassingly bad. So, instead, I just entered a pinhole print (figure 1, right).
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With lots going on here this year, I had almost forgotten that I was scheduled to exhibit some pinhole prints at a local gallery. The exhibition was planned last year and was to go up the April 1. I called the gallery yesterday and explained that I wasn’t sure I’d be able to get the prints to them. I knew there were some people I could ask to deliver the prints, but wasn’t sure I wanted to get everything together and then ask someone at the last minute to help get them to the gallery. But the gallery owners were great about the whole thing and offered to come over to pick up the framed prints.
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