I've visited New York a few times, once I remember going to the top of the trade center and looking out over the city. Another time I remember being there for hands across america. The city had some profound affects on me, not all positive, but affects that led to work I would make in drawing and painting for several years later. After 9/11/01 I searched for my pictures of the towers that were destroyed. They seemed insignificant knowing that it was the loss of life, not the buildings that was the tragedy, but it was the iconographic symbol of the buildings that many of us have clung to as a connection to the tragedy. I began making some images using some of my old photos from the trips I made to New York. I'll share some of these with you all over the next few days. Some of these are re-photographing the old b/w prints with words written on paper and held over the photograph, I do this by holding the paper and photo up to a bear 300 watt bulb and photographing the light coming through the sandwich paper and photo. Photograph by Richard Sayer
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I also found this old portrait I made of my friend Ann. At the time my interest in portraiture was something far beyond just looking at the face, I wanted to capture thought. Photograph by Richard Sayer
In class today I was talking about composition and looking around(and up). When I was searching for images that fit into composition formulas I found some of my student work from 25 years ago. I used this and other old frames to discuss with my students composition, the rule of thirds, geometric and organic shapes, patterns etc... This one frame fit alot of those formulas all in one. Maybe I listened to my teachers way back then, hoping my students listen to me. Photograph by Richard Sayer
Artist Faith Johnson spent 8 hours Saturday blowing up a giant clear plastic sphere at the Allegheny College 8-hour projects exhibition and performance. I enjoyed the calm quiet as this artists sat in this room and just took her time breathing in air through her nose and out through her mouth into this ball. Its a performance piece I could enjoy conceptually and formally. Meadville Tribune photograph by Richard Sayer
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Christian McCauley, 5, receives a kiss from his dad, Brian before heading into his room for his first day of kindergarten. Second District students get on the bus after their first day of school. Meadville Tribune photo by Richard Sayer
Kyle Bowman, a fourth grader, looks out of the bus after the first day of school at Second District. Meadville Tribune photo by Richard Sayer
This was a classic case where adults knew exactly what they were doing when they saw the press cameras show up. The organizer of this event in Diamond Park to protest the state funding cuts and stalemate of the state budget passing, stopped the event and told everyone to gather the kids in the middle with their signs for a picture. I was going to ignore this as it was an event the adults understood, but not the kids. I was pressed for time and did snap some frames and this is what was in the paper the next day. It plays on the sympathy factor to get the point accross. Not something I wanted to do really, since I was there to not take sides. Meadville Tribune photo by Richard Sayer
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