Today was my date to give blood after lunch. Ever since getting back to
Stanford to work for the Knudsen Lab, I've been making regular appointments
to donate...it's an easy thing to do when it means an hour's break from the
daily grind!
Nurse Therese was a little apprehensive about me taking pictures...She didn't
want to look at the camera, but she gave me a good mona lisa smile. And while
the sign out on the street was advertising a need for all blood types, you
can see that things were pretty slow when I was visiting...no one else donating
at that time.
On the walk back from the Blood Center through the hospital complex, I stopped
to shoot a few pictures of the flower garden outside the Cafeteria. The gardeners
at Stanford do a great job, and there's always a profusion of flowers to
appreciate, even in the winter.
Entering into the building, I noticed a really cool photo collage for the
first time, Nomura Hitoshi's 'Annalemma of the Moon, 1991.' To produce this
composite, Hitoshi painstakingly photographed the full moon from the same
spot over the course of the year, then layered these images to show how the
moon dances through the sky. Way too cool...
If you want to see more of Hitoshi's work, you can find him through a Google search...a common thread in many
of his works is to capture the passage of time through the motion of celestial
objects. Interestingly, in pursuit of this theme, Hitoshi has expanded his
work from photography into sculpture using a variety of media.
From the hospital hallway I descended into the nearby atrium, searching for
more Hitoshi photos, but found none. I headed back towards my desk in the
Fairchild building by navigating the claustrophobic hallways of the basement.
Like MIT, you can move between any two points in the medical center without
going above ground if you know the proper routes (many are locked...).
A couple hours more work and it was time to pick up Ting from Tumbleweed
and go home...
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