Comments on: patricia lay-dorsey – falling

By: Patricia Lay-Dorsey

Patricia Lay-Dorsey — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:14:01 +0000

YES!!! I have yet to see your little boy. Please keep me in the loop for Beate’s torcapa blog. Can’t wait to see all 3 of you pictured there…

love from Motown
Patricia

By: david bowen

david bowen — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:55:45 +0000

yes – the only way i could have made it would have been to punt at getting them to pay my expenses in echange for good press, however i am so out of the loop on teh music mags right now that it would be unlikely..
and time is really not on my side right now.

yeps.. one day..
look3 would have been great – just no chance for me this year either..
had a good chat with anton and still feel thing pull between expense to go and shoot somewhere and expense to visit photo festivals.. and shooting is still winning right now :ø)

beate is setting up a torcapa blog.. will mail you the url once she starts posting..

By: Patricia Lay-Dorsey

Patricia Lay-Dorsey — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:11:04 +0000

Hey, David B, I am SO disappointed that we won’t be dancin’ the night away at the Detroit Electronic music Festival this May! I guess I should have realized when you wrote about your summer rental but I didn’t put two & two together. Ah well, another time. Regarding Visa, I’m afraid Look3 & the much-awaited workshop with DAH and Jim Nachtwey will make extended travels unlikely for me in 2009. But I know we’ll meet someday…

Patricia

By: david bowen

david bowen — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:34:00 +0000

you are such a star patricia..
i´m so sorry we´ll not meet next month.. rocking the bells at detroit EM festival would have been priceless.. but it will happen sometime this year i hope.. for now summer beckons in other places.

how about visa? you likely to visit the old country for that one?

the front photo has double meaning for me.. you look somehow sorrowful and resigned.. yet the playful plats in your hair betray a younger heart, creatively weaving something tangible from the passing days.

amazing you have an old school chum lending you opinion.. knowing you i´ll wager there are stories to be told :ø)
x

By: Patricia Lay-Dorsey

Patricia Lay-Dorsey — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:24:11 +0000

And John, sorry, I’d missed your kind comment and question. This cover photo was added about a month after my essay first appeared on Burn. And I actually have Kyunghee Lee to thank for inspiring me to look at my world in new ways. It was the day after looking at her “Clouds’ essay here on Burn that I uncharacteristically awoke before dawn with this idea for a shot. By the way, I’m looking in my paternal grandmother’s silver handmirror that is engraved with her initials, LLLL.

Patricia

By: Patricia Lay-Dorsey

Patricia Lay-Dorsey — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:14:59 +0000

Oh my gawd, Burn even brings old high school classmates together! What I remember about you, dear Thom, was your coming thousands of miles by motorcycle to our 20th reunion. What a guy!!! See you next year at our 50th…

Patricia

By: Thom Keach

Thom Keach — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:11:10 +0000

Patty,
Dear Friend, what a beautiful inspiring series of photographs you have here. Your honesty is amazing and I am now willing to face our 50th. class reunion, fat as I am, tats that I have, and all. Since we last met at our 20th. reunion I have been wondering how you were doing and I see that perky little Patsy that I knew is still there with a smile on her face and love in her heart.

By: john Gladdy

john Gladdy — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 12:27:11 +0000

Patricia. The opening shot. Is it new? Just simply stunning. Everything is there in the frame. Very very honest and deeply moving.
John.

By: burn magazine | abitpixel

burn magazine | abitpixel — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 12:17:03 +0000

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By: Misha

Misha — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 05:35:16 +0000

Beautiful photographs. Thanks for sharing your story-very brave!

By: Christine Quigley

Christine Quigley — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:49:11 +0000

Patricia, I too have MS (diagnosed 18 years go) and get around on a scooter. My boss is a photographer and forwarded me this link, which I would otherwise have missed. Your photographs say a lot more than words ever could to people LIKE us, people who just LOOK at us, and people who KNOW us and share our lives. I have found the blog I began this Fall (Quigley’s Cabinet) to be the perfect outlet for my own creativity with a minimum of frustration, so that my posts do not vent about my condition, but weave it into my interests – just as it is woven into my life. I link to your essay in the Health Diary I keep in the right-hand column (scroll down). I have attracted a loyal following and have been in touch with many people I would never have met and who now provide invaluable support – of my writing and of my struggles with MS. It’s so nice to be seen as a writer with MS rather than someone with MS who writes, and I imagine you feel the same about your photography. Very moving. I’d love to hear from you.

By: Emily K

Emily K — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:41:46 +0000

What a spectacular intimate and emotional display. I loved the one you took of Eddie outside on the ramp, the one of you two singing, and while at Einstein’s. I can sense great emotion within the photo of you reaching for the bicycle.

By: Mara

Mara — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 01:43:04 +0000

Hi Patricia,

I’m an acquaintance from MichFest, and wanted to let you know I really liked your body of work here. My favorite images were the one of you and Eddie reading together, the one of you looking out the window, and the opening self-portrait.

As far as a critiques, just a mild one — I wasn’t sure why you included the photo at the coffee shop with the open book.

Hope to see you back at Fest one of these days, and hope the Michigan cold isn’t getting you too down!

Mara

By: Lyn Petit

Lyn Petit — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:35:28 +0000

Patricia,
Your photo essay is exquisite. You paint with your camera and you write beautifully. Thank you for letting me into your inner space. You are wonderful to share your gifted eye with the world.
How did you get that blue jay to stay long enough to match your sandal? You’re quick.
More to talk about. Please keep shooting.
Thank you,
Lyn

By: Paulo Gama

Paulo Gama — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 03:37:08 +0000

Thanks for sharing not just your excellent work, Patricia, you are brilliant as a human being and artist.
:)
A big and sincere hug from your friend
paulo

By: audrey bardou

audrey bardou — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:06:47 +0000

Hi Patricia,

I love 28!! it is my favorite image too!!

Best, audrey

By: wendy

wendy — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:26:01 +0000

Patricia..
I might be able to give you some contacts.. We are showing an artist in April, Shay Bredimus, young new talent in LA.. In addition to him, we are hosting the GreenLight exhibit..
I just met Shay, and he would be one brilliant match for you, and a contact for others… He uses tattoo ink on sheets of a type of film- don’t remember the type of ‘film’…. mmm..
If not 2009, maybe something to focus on for 2010!! **

By: Patricia Lay-Dorsey

Patricia Lay-Dorsey — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:30:23 +0000

Oops…just read the VSA submission guidelines & that presents a bit of a problem. The proposed exhibition must include at least five artists, the majority of whom are artists with disabilities. Anyody know any other photographers who address disability issues and/or are disabled themselves?

Patricia

By: Patricia Lay-Dorsey

Patricia Lay-Dorsey — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:20:01 +0000

Wendy, I’d never heard of VSA (http://www.vsarts.org/) but have just checked it out. I see they have a call for exhibition proposals for the 2009-10 season and the deadline is February 20. Thanks to you, I’m going to apply!

hugs
Patricia

By: Patricia Lay-Dorsey

Patricia Lay-Dorsey — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:13:37 +0000

Wow! You folks are so kind with your comments. This photo has special meaning to me because the mirror I’m holding is my paternal grandmother’s silver hand mirror with her initials–LLLL–engraved on the back. And the clay sculpture in the background is one I made when I was in art college in the late 1970s. Feels like I’m coming home…

Patricia