something about: better days

something about: starlight

Part of a continuing series.

something about: your dinner

Part of a continuing series.

something about: business as usual

Part of a continuing series.

something about: the incomprehensible

Part of a continuing series.

something about: comfort

Part of a continuing series.

something about: depression

One from the archives (January, 2007). Part of a continuing series.

something about: efficiency

Apples packaged in plastic. Part of a continuing series.

Gracie

something to hold on to

something about: the artist

Part of a continuing series.

something about: hope

This is in what is planned to become the Freise HOPE House, a transitional care facility for the mentally ill. It is of the same room shown in the photograph, "a beautiful light."

Part of a continuing series.

something about: infatuation

Part of the something about series.

something about: the photographer

Taken through the barred window pane in the front door of what is to be a transitional home for the mentally ill.

Part of the something about series.

something about: recognition

Part of the something about series.

something about: elegance

Things left behind at a closed transitional shelter for homeless women.

This is part of a continuing series, something about.

something about: prayer

Photographed exactly as found in a vacated building...


Part of a continuing series.

a beautiful light

The bright sunlight reflecting off the wooden floors onto the plaster walls creates a really wonderful and warm feeling in this room. This is in one of two adjacent buildings that will, should all go well, become a transitional care facility for people experiencing mental health problems. I was there with a group who had volunteered to clean up the two buildings.

In a previous life, from 1927 to 1950(?), this was a successful, privately owned and operated maternity hospital. The owner was Wilhelmina Freise (1878-1953). You can read a bit more about her here. And here's a photo (of a photo) showing what we think is the same room in use as a nursery probably back in the 1940s.

something about: memories

Found at a vacant building in Bakersfield, CA in what used to be the Freise Maternity Hospital (in operation from 1927 to 1950). The identity of the original photographer, as well as that of the nurse, are unknown. The photo was probably taken in the late 1940s or perhaps 1950.

Part of a continuing series.

kirby

something about: curiosity

Part of a continuing series.

something about: lonliness

Part of a continuing series.

something about: childhood

Also see this one, taken the same day.

three leaves in a green vase

There's a tendency, I think, for people to look at a still life like this for only a moment when, in fact, it needs a bit more than that of your time. The lines, the angle of those lines, the relationship between those angles and the aspect ratio of the frame, the depth of the shadows and the amount of color that appear in them, ... none of these is there by mistake.