Volunteering

All for a good cause.  But it is funny that historically artists have had a hard time paying their bills, and yet everywhere I turn someone has a project they need my help with.  Good will and good art both come from the same place inside of me.  Ideally, I would never ask for money for my work because it is something I love to do.  I love the challenge of a new project, I love all types of problem solving.  But technically isn't this the definition of a great job?  Getting paid for doing something you love?  All food for thought, for this is not a small issue in my life right now.


PHR Emergency Department
I created this model of Matthew's workplace.  The emergency department of Palmetto Health Richland continually welcomes medical students, nursing students, and rotating residents, all of which require a basic orientation of the facility.  Matthew orients all of these groups and hopefully this model will make his job easier.

  

  

Gills Creek Watershed Association

The GCWA is a group of committed citizens that are tirelessly trying to educate our community about the interrelated issues of water quality and pollution and how they effect our environment.  Explaining the beauty and importance of a watershed is not easy, especially in an urban context.  Their brochure needed an update and I gave it a critical eye.  8/5"x11" tri-fold design, the back portion is detachable to become a member or give a donation to the group.  I also plan on populating the watershed map with more data once I get some feedback from the group.

 (outside)

(inside)

Framing

My brother-in-law recently moved into a new place with his fiancee, and they are in bad need of art work for their walls.  So when my mother-in-law came into town we went to Hobby-Lobby and bought several of their discount frames and mattes and put together some of my photography for Justin.  It was a good project, and I was surprised by how fast cutting the mattes and assembling the pieces went with two people working together.  Great practice with the matte cutter I invested in earlier in the year - I'm not so scared of it now.  These were my only prints of most of these negatives... I guess I'll have to try to sneak back into the dark room at USC once school starts to have a copy for my records.