2003 | San Diego
I hung a retirement show, OFF CAMPUS, in the spacious gallery owned by the gracious David Zapf in Little Italy. David had arranged for complementary display space in the foyer and street windows of a downtown bank, so I planned a general-audience selection there to drive a few more visitors uptown to the Gallery.
Paul Douda helped me with the installation, and it was good that he was slimmer than I was — access was limited. Like me, Paul had a hands-on fix-it builder father and an artistic mother, and even as a young man, he had developed good measures of both resources.
Setting out his intentions for a project in my “Why People Photograph” seminar, Paul wrote: “Instead of wanting to see what I can do with a camera, I want to see what can be done with a camera.”