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On the point of black and white being more powerful, I would agree. But I think that it is powerful because it exists in a context of a color world. Color in the background can bring to like the black white pictures I think. As it exists in an all Black and White environment, there is little contrast to enliven the photos.
Nathan Ricks <Nathan_Ricks@otter.monterey.edu>
- Thursday, March 20, 1997 at 14:19:28 (PST)
art piece: the exhibit
Look for more of the actual work currently on display in the Library Learning Complex to begin appearing here as CSUMB student Gwen Gotico builds the pages for her Service Learning project. I have helped her to take all of Kira's images and get them ready for the web, but the style of the pages will remain they way both Kira and Fran wished. I agreed that the black and white help emphasize the contrasts of the subject material; but if you have some ideas, let me know!
Greg Pool <greg_pool@monterey.edu>
- Thursday, March 13, 1997 at 19:18:25 (PST)
art piece: Collection
I viewed some of your work in a presentation you gave in my SL200 class. I was a little dissapointed to find much of it is not available here. Maybe I haven't looked hard enough but I found only 2 pictures. The Matriot/Revolution, and the picture of you and your collegue. I would recommend adding a little color to the page itself to make the black and white images stand out a little better. Let me know if I can be of some help in this.
Nathan Ricks <Nathan_Ricks@otter.monterey.edu>
- Thursday, March 13, 1997 at 14:08:55 (PST)
art piece: picture of matriot & fist
This sort of thing encourages divisiveness in our society... so I think the only thing the ruralists can do is form a pilitia ( pa - lish - uh).
L. Edgar Otto <odo@discover-net.net>
- Wednesday, March 12, 1997 at 06:31:26 (PST)
art piece: The Turned-Away Ones
Are posters available?
Jane Skoric <Jane_Skoric@monterey.edu>
- Wednesday, March 05, 1997 at 12:21:51 (PST)
art piece: matriot responses
what a thrill to read your responses to the matriot. a thread of "we CAN transform our health care system." we can.
you know, at the end of the reading on wednesday night, when you all were applauding, i had a sense that what was happening here was that you were applauding something in yourself that you saw in our -- kira and my -- work. yes.
frances payne adler
- Friday, February 14, 1997 at 10:38:01 (PST)
art piece: all of the above
How Much Longer? How much longer will we continue to allow the doctors and lawyers to walk arm in arm while they reach into our pockets and our lives, contaminating all they touch with their greed and indifference? How much longer will we watch silently while the monstrous insurance companies line their pockets with OUR blood,sweat and tears? How much longer will we wait for our friends and families to die before our eyes, needing help but not receiving it, cheated by the institutions supposedly designed to protect us? How much longer can all of this go on?
Ted Benbow <edward_benbow@otter.monterey.edu>
- Thursday, February 13, 1997 at 13:00:51 (PST)
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I really enjoyed the entire exhibit and was very moved by all that was declared and felt in every piece of art.
Jenn Cutright
- Wednesday, February 12, 1997 at 20:27:06 (PST)
art piece: All of the above
Powerful exhibition! Seeing the vivid photos, reading the poems, then hearing them read, knowing that the roots of this exhibit lie in personal experience, not just political theory-- --knowing Jeff Norman and his dog Cisco and having hiked the ridge to his eagle's perch and knowing how far he had to go to get to get to the CLOSED sign at the Big Sur Clinic-- --recalling Bessie Smith bleeding to death at an emergency room door in the deep south decades ago-- --remembering my hopes for the Clintons' promised health care plan and my disillusionment watching them slowly abandon that commitment to the American people-- --I leave the occasion feeling uncomfortably itchy, dissatisfied--like, LET'S DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!
Jean Widaman <jean_widaman@otter.edu>
- Wednesday, February 12, 1997 at 19:32:52 (PST)
art piece: all
I really enjoyed the exhibit. I have worked off and on for health insurance companies since 1990. I am taking time off due to frustration and burnout. Your pictures and wonderful vision of all the people I tried to help deal with the healthcare industry and to get the care they so desperately needed. Sometimes I succeeded, sometimes I did not. The system needs to be changed; until quality care for all becomes a priority over profit, the system will continue its downward spiral into oblivion.
Carrie McAfoos
- Wednesday, February 12, 1997 at 19:31:24 (PST)
art piece: WALL OF SHIELDS
EVERYTHING IN THIS EXHIBIT MADE ME RETHINK ABOUT WHAT POOR PEOPLE ARE EXPERIENCING IN THE MEDICAL SYSTEM.BECAUSE BOTH OF MY PARENTS WERE POOR AND RECEIVED FREE TREATMENT DURING THEIR FIGHTS WITH LUNG CANCER, I HAVE BELIEVED THAT ALL POOR PEOPLE RECEIVE ADEQUATE CARE IF THEY REALLY NEED IT. THEN I THINK OF TALES RECENTLY SHARED BY MY 83 YEAR OLD AUNT OF HER FRIENDS WHO CANNOT AFFORD TO GET THEIR PRESCRIPTIONS FILLED AND OF CLIENTS WHOSE CHILDREN HAVE CAVITIES AND NEED URGENT DENTAL CARE BUT CANNOT RECEIVE IT BECAUSE SO FEW DENTISTS HERE TAKE MEDI-CAL--I REALIZE THAT I HAVE BEEN IN DENIAL FOMANY TRUTHS THAT I DO NOT CARE TO FACE. THANK YOU FOR MAKING ME MORE CONSCIOUS --FOR AWAKENING MY TO THE NEED TO PAY ATTENTION AND TO RESPOND WITH CARE AND ACTION AND URGENCY.
BRENDA SHINAULT <SHINCOM2@AOL>
- Wednesday, February 12, 1997 at 19:29:33 (PST)
art piece: powerfuld/beautiful/moving images--so important to see the faces and bodies of people directly affected. Even though they are technically strangers to me, I know them for we all share human bodies, all face potential health problems
Get back on the health care for all band wagon! We, the people who elected you--even those who didn't vote for you--need you to be concerned about every human being in your sphere of influence. All of our health depends on the health of all
carol whitehill <cwhiteh522@aol.com>
- Wednesday, February 12, 1997 at 19:24:28 (PST)
art piece: powerfuld/beautiful/moving images--so important to see the faces and bodies of people directly affected. Even though they are technically strangers to me, I know them for we all share human bodies, all face potential health problems
Get back on the health care for all band wagon! We, the people who elected you--even those who didn't vote for you--need you to be concerned about every human being in your sphere of influence. All of our health depends on the health of all
carol whitehill <cwhiteh522@aol.com>
- Wednesday, February 12, 1997 at 19:24:01 (PST)
art piece:
I am so toucvhed by this exhibit... I would like for everyone in the US to see it. Truth!
Mary Warshaw
- Wednesday, February 12, 1997 at 19:20:58 (PST)
art piece: Photography and Poetry
Reflective nature of language and images allows one to feel represented by t. thank you.
S. Stoney
- Wednesday, February 12, 1997 at 19:19:47 (PST)
art piece: ALL OF THEM
The powerful images definitely help draw ones attention to the prose and poetry. Thus making the issue of the need for Health Care improvements in the US know and present in our minds. I am lucky to have health care through my work (and only a $5 copay.) I feel sorry for those who don't have the priviledge.
BRIANF <BRIANF@SCRUZNET.COM>
- Wednesday, February 12, 1997 at 19:17:06 (PST)
art piece:
Kira and Fran are amazing and inspire me to become a stronger matriot. Thanks!
Kathleen
- Wednesday, February 12, 1997 at 19:14:37 (PST)
art piece:
Fran: Your poem about Kira's illness: Part 3 still makes me cry, even after all these years!
Joyce Vandevere <jvan@mbay.net>
- Wednesday, February 12, 1997 at 19:14:03 (PST)
art piece:
powerful we need this We need to get it in Spanish?
Deb Wilson-Vandenberg
- Wednesday, February 12, 1997 at 19:09:39 (PST)
art piece:
The so-called "health care" system is self-perpetuating. X-rays give people cancer then we give them radiation to "cure" them, then dumping the resultant waste thus giving even more people cancer. Many believe that childhood "immunizations" cause encephalitis, resulting in all manner of illness later in life. How many of the people on "health care" drink, or smoke, or take drugs, or eat meat or non-organic produce, thus giving them "illnesses" that they now need "care" for? Hospitals are prisons for the sick, no places for those who need recovery. Less is more. Teach prevention, good diet, the elimination of toxins from the body/environment. Send doctors back to school to teach them about life, not death. Bring back the village healer. Make hospitals out of trees not brick. Humanize the system. Better still, abort the system. Take responsibility for your own body. Stop expecting someone else to take "care" of you. Live right,eat healthy, die when nature wants you to die. Don't expect me to pay for your lack of prudence. Thanks.
ANON
- Wednesday, February 12, 1997 at 18:13:16 (PST)
art piece: Exhibit
I would love to bring a group of photography students (from RLS) on a field trip in March to view the exhibit. My objective: to have them produce a piece in the style exhibited on the walls. Kira, I really like the format you have chosen for this exhibit. Congratulations.
R. Cole Thompson
- Wednesday, February 12, 1997 at 18:00:32 (PST)
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Cheers to you both. Such impact, such power in your pictures and words. Continued success. Love Robin
Robin Rosenzweig
- Wednesday, February 12, 1997 at 17:44:11 (PST)
art piece: Body molds
I really enjoyed the exhibit, and i am very glad that it was brought to Cal State Monterey Bay.
Amy Renee Lauder
- Wednesday, February 12, 1997 at 17:33:27 (PST)
art piece: Matriot Exhibit
What an amazing exhibit! I can't imagine that anyone would believe that a health care crisis doesn't exist in America after seeing this POWERFUL exhibit which provides the true picture of healthcare in America. How can healthcare be a privilege and not a right for the citizens of one of the most prosperous countries in the world?! Hopefully, Fran and Kira's art for social change will not only help people to realize that there is a health care crisis but to mobilize and motivate each of us to affect positive change!
Michelle Slade <Michelle_Slade@monterey.edu>
- Wednesday, February 12, 1997 at 17:29:52 (PST)
art piece: matriot exhibit-all of it
Health care is our right, as you both have so often stated. Thank you for perservering in the t to insure quality care for all, especially the needy. By your modeling the care and passion for the vision, we will achieve the goals.
Marsha Kelly <mkelly@monterey.k12.ca.us>
- Wednesday, February 12, 1997 at 17:29:24 (PST)
These scripts originally created by Matt Wright and can be found at Matt's Script Archive
