Great Exudations – Page 31 – Semi-random musings, poems, and visual images from the journey

“The Face of an Epidemic”

Axial diffusion-weighted MR image reveals irreversible global anoxic injury in an opioid patient following drug overdose. These images were made possible by the generous contributions of the Sackler Foundation.

“Double Decker Dogs”

The Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco in April 2019

“Matchstick Man (Self Portrait #4)”

“Just because…”

“Hot Wax Museum”

At a vintage store in Hampden neighborhood of Baltimore

“You’re Looking Up, 20!”

20 S Charles St. in Baltimore, MD one fine and sunny day. We became friends on my walks to and from work.

Potent Quotables:

“All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.”
federico fellini

Fellini’s “8-1/2” (1963), starring Marcello Mastroianni, is about a middle-aged film director who is creatively, and spiritually, stuck.

“Art Vandaleaux”

The scene outside Cranes (excellent) restaurant in Washington, DC one Sunday morning (July 2022). Maybe the cultural measure of a city is whether their vandals can destroy and simultaneously create an art installation.

“Neon Non-Deion (Self Portrait #3)”

“Oh, Baltimore…”

Walked down by the Karma Police, perhaps. Trauma patient with hemopneumothorax requiring chest tube, as well as a right scapular fracture and lung contusion.

Overheard just before the injury: “Omar…..”