Friday, February 21, 2020

Wrightwood 659 - The Allure of Matter

The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China Feb 6–May 2, 2020


Wrightwood 659, The Allure of Matter
Photo: Larry Wolf (2020)
I spent a couple of hours at Wrightwood 659, a gem of a museum hidden behind the facade of an old apartment building. Their current exhibit is work from China. The exhibit at Wrightwood 659 is paired with one at the Smart Museum of Art 

Since the 1980s, artists working in China have experimented with various materials, transforming seemingly everyday objects into large-scale artworks. [from the exhibit website]

Jin Shan - Mistaken (2015)  

Jin Shan, Mistaken (2015)
Photo: Larry Wolf (2020)
Jin Shan, Mistaken (2015)
Photo: Larry Wolf (2020)

Jin Shan, Mistaken (2015)
Photo: Larry Wolf (2020)

Jin Shan, Mistaken (2015)
Photo: Larry Wolf (2020)

Liang Shaoji - Chains: The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Nature Series, No. 79 (2002-2007)

Liang Shaoji, Chains: The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Nature Series, No. 79 (2002-2007)
Photo: Larry Wolf (2020)

Liang Shaoji, Chains: The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Nature Series, No. 79 (2002-2007)
Photo: Larry Wolf (2020)

Liang Shaoji, Chains: The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Nature Series, No. 79 (2002-2007)
Photo: Larry Wolf (2020)

Zhan Wang - Ornamental Rock (1996)

Shi Hui, Float (2000/2007/2013)
Zhang Wang, Ornamental Rock (1996)
Photo: Larry Wolf (2020)

Zhang Wang, Ornamental Rock (1996)
Photo: Larry Wolf (2020)

Zhang Wang, Ornamental Rock (1996)
Photo: Larry Wolf (2020)

Zhang Wang, Ornamental Rock (1996)
Photo: Larry Wolf (2020)

 Zhu Jinshi - Wave of Materials (2007/2020)

Zhu Jinshi, Wave of Materials (2007/2020)
Photo: Larry Wolf (2020)

 Zhu Jinshi, Wave of Materials (2007/2020)
Photo: Larry Wolf (2020)








Thursday, February 20, 2020

PROMIS Lab - Hands in Conversation

The PROMIS Lab was a hotbed of clinical informatics innovation in the 1970s and into the early 1980s. Here two physicians are in conversation.

Larry Wolf, PROMIS Lab Conversation (1979)

Larry Wolf, PROMIS Lab Conversation (1979)

Larry Wolf, PROMIS Lab Conversation (1979)

Larry Wolf, PROMIS Lab Conversation (1979)

Larry Wolf, PROMIS Lab Conversation (1979)

Larry Wolf, PROMIS Lab Conversation (1979)

Larry Wolf, PROMIS Lab Conversation (1979)

Thursday, February 13, 2020

The Journey Forward Begins with the Journey to Now

I'm taking a dive into my personal archive, reacquainting myself with who I've been and my journey to who I am today. The specific nudge came from Shawn Rowe and the Guided Project class he's teaching at Lillstreet.

Larry Wolf, Creating an Archive (2020)
I began by organizing the photographic slides I've created. They have been in boxes of various sorts as well as non-archival vinyl sheets. Any semblance of order has been scrambled over the years when I would make slide shows for my friends, then dump the tray of slides into random boxes and start again. I'm about halfway through sorting all of that into archival boxes.
  










Exploring and Honoring

Julia Cameron,
It's Never Too Late
to Begin Again
I'm using Julia Cameron's book It's Never Too Late to Begin Again as a framework. She has a twelve-week plan that includes reflecting on life, using one week for every one-twelfth of a life, for me, that's groups of five to six years. The goal is to create a memoir for that time period.


  

Beginning a bit before the beginning, here is a photo of my parents on their honeymoon.


Rough age groups. There are only eleven of these. As I work through the years, I may shift them around a bit.

Age Year              Landmark / Place
00-05 1950-1956 Birth & Infancy / NY and VA
06-11 1957-1962 Grades 1-7  PS95, JHS 143 / NY
12-17 1963-1968 Grades 8-12  New Rochelle Academy / NY
18-23 1969-1974 College and Grad School / FL & MA
24-30 1975-1981 Resource One and PROMIS Lab / San Francisco and Burlington VT
31-37 1982-1988 ComputerVision, PROMIS Health Tech & Second Foundation / Boston MA and Westford VT
38-42 1989-1993 Second Foundation & Karme Choling / Cabot VT
43-49 1994-2000 Ventech-Vencor / Louisville KY
50-55 2001-2006 Kindred Healthcare / Ann Arbor MI and Chicago IL
56-62 2007-2013 Kindred & Federal Advisory Committees / Chicago IL & Washington DC
63-68 2014-2020 Strategic Health Network & MatrixCare / Chicago IL