Philly Photo Day

This is the photo I submitted, taken outside Martin Luther King High School on Stenton Avenue at about 7:03 am.  I am a teacher here.  

This is another photo I liked from my shoot, of one of our exterior murals.  This poem is sadly ironic now, given the state of our school, and district.  

Great Photographer Assignment

 I chose Sharon Core, a contemporary artist who uses photography to meticulously replicate other artist's paintings.  Here she has reproduced "Cakes", a Wayne Thiebaud painting from 1963. 

I was inspired by the same color, pattern, repetition, and sumptuous materials that drew her to Thiebaud, and used Core's other imagery of sandwiches, salads, fruits, and soups to inform my work.  Because many of these images deal with sweets, I interpret Core's reproductions as addressing current issues of excess and waste, so I chose fruit as a colorful and healthy spin on the original works.