http://www.7oakart.com/blog/2007/11/on-my-mind/joel-peter-witkin/ Inspired Religious Art Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:54:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.7oakart.com/blog/2007/11/on-my-mind/joel-peter-witkin/#comment-16 Molly Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:01:56 +0000 http://www.7oakart.com/blog/2007/11/on-my-mind/joel-peter-witkin/#comment-16 I studied Witkin's images in several photography classes completed over the past few sememsters at UNM. I was working on a B/W series of portraits of Breast Cancer survivor's "scars and all" - titled "Dove in the Window -Portraits of Dignity Strength Hope" - the collection along with other mixed media works hung in the ASA gallery for several months in the Spring of 2007. Witkins work is fascinating and was helpful since my own focused on bodies altered by surgery,chemo and radiation and also were in B/W. I am pleased, surprised and yet not, to learn of his participation at the Newman Center - I am also an ordained UM clergywoman and grieve the heavily Puritan influence on our understanding and acceptance of the human body in all its manifestations. Molly I studied Witkin’s images in several photography classes completed over the past few sememsters at UNM. I was working on a B/W series of portraits of Breast Cancer survivor’s “scars and all” – titled “Dove in the Window -Portraits of Dignity Strength Hope” – the collection along with other mixed media works hung in the ASA gallery for several months in the Spring of 2007. Witkins work is fascinating and was helpful since my own focused on bodies altered by surgery,chemo and radiation and also were in B/W. I am pleased, surprised and yet not, to learn of his participation at the Newman Center – I am also an ordained UM clergywoman and grieve the heavily Puritan influence on our understanding and acceptance of the human body in all its manifestations. Molly

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