Hand-made
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I began my professional career as a photographer and graphic designer. After I invented my Modular Design System (which can be viewed elsewhere on this site), I was persuaded by professionals in Seattle (where I lived) to move to New York City to attend Pratt Institute and get some “Real” graphic design training; which I did immediately in 1975. In 1977, after Pratt (where I created the first medical photography program in New York state) I went into medicine and became an ophthalmic photographer, film-maker and videographer at Harkness Eye Institute at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital (the oldest eye clinic in the world, where I was also the Eye Diagnostic Center supervisor). Thereafter, I became Projects Director at Dr. Francis A. L’Esperance’s Ophthalmic Research Foundation (also in NYC) and then moved back to Seattle to work for Dr. David J. McIntyre, a world-class eye surgeon, with whom I started the first national, medical-specialty video production house in the USA, LifeLine Video Productions. At each step of this journey I was creating logos and a wide variety of printed pieces for my medical employers, professional organizations and businesses as well as pro bono work for clients such as the great jazz musicians and theater people I knew at the time. Graphic Design was another tool in my professional armamentarium and immensely helpful in catalyzing my endeavors. It was also an invaluable skill which I applied routinely in my numerous video projects, both in medicine and the arts. In my home studio, I was also creating numerous graphic design works on my own as “artistic projects” or as “laboratories of ideas” which sometimes led me into more serious artistic realms. I hope you enjoy this short tour of a diverse panoply of visions, in a variety of media, that I have created over the last half century. (Please note that the Intelligence in these artworks, such as it is, is all my mine and guaranteed non-Artificial.)