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BIOGRAPHY: Photographing Boulder, Colorado ceramics artist & surgeon, Pat Ting. {Part II}

kevinvonqualen — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:15:46 +0000

Pat - It’s one of those things that, I played piano so much when I was younger that, you know if you think about it, you’re gonna screw it up.

While I was photographing Pat’s ceramics, he began tinkering on his wife’s piano, seeing if he could remember prior years of piano lessons. It was the perfect background music while viewing his work, so I began recording. You are listening to Pat playing the piano as I photographed his ceramics.

BIOGRAPHY sessions move beyond the digital medium to sharing stories and presenting work in a traditional analog manner…the book. Books are made for each BIOGRAPHY session containing photographs, quotations, and the story.

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

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BIOGRAPHY: Pat Ting – Boulder, Colorado surgeon & ceramics artist {Part I}

kevinvonqualen — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:51:13 +0000

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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BIOGRAPHY: Planting with Kelly & Lucas in Arvada, Colorado. {Part II}

kevinvonqualen — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 22:29:12 +0000

Lucas – DIG, Dig, dig dig dig. I’m OK now.

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Lucas – This one’s the HARDEST one!

Kelly – Can I help you?

Lucas – No.

Kelly – Ok.

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Kevin – If any of these flowers survive…

Kelly – Usually they’re hit and miss.

Kevin – That’s why you buy so many.

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BIOGRAPHY: Photographing Kelly & Lucas around the house in Arvada, Colorado. {Part I}

kevinvonqualen — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 23:22:47 +0000

Kelly – Are you gonna make every single brush used?

Lucas – Yes. I’m using all of the paintbrushes..

Lucas – I went on a roller coaster in Disney Land and it had a loop on it, and it was my first time going on a loop.

Kevin – You did that?

Lucas – Yeah. On the yellow one, it’s like, ‘Ready? No. Five, four, three, two, one… screeeeeeeam’, and then it goes up, and then it goes down, and I can’t even breathe.

Kevin – Were you scared?

Lucas – No.

Kevin – What should we do next?

Lucas – Plant! Plant!

Kevin – You wanna go out and plant?

Lucas – Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. YEAH!

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