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I’ve been photographing Pat’s work for a few years now, and we’ve become friends in the process.  In exploring these BIOGRAPHY sessions, I wanted to record his story within one of his elements…his home.  In our interview, Pat shares about inspiration for his designs, how proceeds benefit people in Indonesia, and how his day job of being a general surgeon relates to his ceramics hobby.

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Pat - There is a lot of leeway in surgery that you just don’t get in the visual arts…If I was, for example, a professor and had to train residents, I would really require them to take some kind of visual arts course…With visual arts, you pick up on things, you see things, that we’re not trained to see as surgeons…Some of the real details with putting tissues together and looking for abnormalities, I think those visual cues you can actually develop in painting or doing sculpture or woodwork. So I would really want my students to do that.

Pat’s website:  http://www.tingteas.com

Thanks to Pat for sharing twice, as I forgot to hit ‘record’ the first time…

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