Hey Ted, why is it that I get about eight hits a day about this show? It must have affected someone. Good for you!
Let's hope there are fewer scars for everybody to work with in 2009.
Best wishes,
Bill Gusky
10/04/2006
Ted Meyer Prints the Scars of Life
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This exciting exhibit has also received extensive coverage in The Washington Post, Washington City Poaper, DC Examiner, Modern HealthCare, etc., so we invite everyone to see "Scarred for Life: Mono-Prints of Surgical Scars" at the National Museum of Health and Medicine before the display comes down at the end of March 2007. We're open every day except Dec. 25, and admission and parking are free!
Steven Solomon
Public Affairs Officer
National Museum of Health and Medicine,
Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
6900 Georgia Avenue at Elder Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20307
www.nmhm.washingtondc.museum
Since you have chosen to minimize my work without seeing it I thought I would write and offer everyone the opportunity to download the show catalogue from the home page of my web site and read the accompanying stories that are paired with each scar and gain a fuller scope of the show. http://www.artyourworld.com. Other reviews of the show are also posted on the site.
I know it seems easy to say "Oh, a guy making scar prints". In my case, having been born with major medical problems my artwork has always dealt with medical issues and it's effect on the psyche and this is just one portion of it.
I will tell you that each time I show this work I am amazed at how it touches people. How many come up to me and offer their scars, their stories and how many want to be part of this art/documentation project.
I believe you underestimate the show as just...how did you put it, "grotesqueries of massive purplish flesh gashes" Nothing in the exhibit even nears that. The images themselves are purposely abstract. The show is part visual image, part sociological study, part photographic portraiture and for the people lending me the scars and stories it is clearly cathartic.
I believe by reading the catalogue you will see that people's situations have not been "cheapened" and each life story is treated with the respect it deserves. At least that is the belief of those lining up to be printed.
Ted Meyer
ted@artyourworld.com
Thanks for your comment, Ted --
As regards minimizing the work without having seen it, I very clearly and specifically stated that my comment was a response to the concept itself.
Then I asked valid questions and solicited responses from people who saw the show, since it's well outside easy viewing for me, being a few hours away. I wanted to know how it came off.
No one responded to my post until you did.
I'd have liked to hear from one of the many who were affected by this show some months ago, but since there isn't that much traffic this way it's little surprise that none was forthcoming.
Thanks for filling me in more on the show, and for giving me details on how people are responding. If the show hits the northeast I'll try to get to it and then actually respond to the work.
Happy New Year - B
It is so relieving to find someone who believes scars are beautiful or works of art. I am only 18 years old but am left with a surgical scar on my thraot for the rest of my life...at first i thhought it was ugly and that led me to believe i was ugly. But now i see that the scar helps make me into the person I am today. It's not just a scar, it's my scar.
Scars are art created by the body
to cover prior damage,some are visible others are invisible.
Good Work Ted !
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