A Personal Aesthetics Statement

My art is about what I know. It is also, to paraphrase Jasper Johns, what I cannot not do. It is a personal art and its content comes from what is personally significant to me. My art making process is irrational. A creative search is like a maze. Each step in the process of making a piece of art, each transformation, opens up an unlimited number of possible choices for me. Although I often begin a drawing with a precise visualization I find I must allow my imagination and unconscious to take over because it is this part of me that can most easily grasp the total structure of what is before me and lead me to a choice my rational mind might overlook. In this sense, my art does not contain images that summarize acquired learning or diagram logical consequences. The seventy-five drawings in the show are small in scale and are intended to be modest. Modesty in the sense of equalization of extremes. It takes time and attention to take in all the detail in something small and to allow it to expand. The worlds and experiences that I make in my drawings are manageable and easily dominated. I want my art to be a magnifying glass, to recapture youth in returning to the enlarging gaze of a child; to return to the garden. &nbsp;</p

Playing Games with Tito:Designing Hybrid Museum Experiences for Critical Play

This article brings together two distinct, but related perspectives on playful museum experiences: Critical play and hybrid design. The article explores the challenges involved in combining these two perspectives, through the design of two hybrid museum experiences that aimed to facilitate critical play with/in the collections of the Museum of Yugoslavia and the highly contested heritage they represent. Based on reflections from the design process as well as feedback from test users, we describe a series of challenges: Challenging the norms of visitor behaviour, challenging the role of the artefact, and challenging the curatorial authority. In conclusion, we outline some possible design strategies to address these challenges

Role of genetic testing for inherited prostate cancer risk: Philadelphia prostate cancer consensus conference 2017

Purpose: Guidelines are limited for genetic testing for prostate cancer (PCA). The goal of this conference was to develop an expert consensus-dri