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Larry Fink, Cleveland School of the Arts, 1998 - gelatin silver print - 36.8 x 37.3 cm.

Larry Fink, Cleveland School of the Arts, 1998 - gelatin silver print - 36.8 x 37.3 cm.

Cleveland School of the Arts

Massive institutional indifference creates long mean streams, streams which run deep within a soul.

The tributaries splinter out in violent ways, cutting inside, upside of the brain face body.

Heads of families die from pain caused by indifference, heads of state service the lips to utter care and care not.

Mean streams can trumpet out. Drum on, draw up, and kindle forth expressions of personal hope.

Cries and whispers break forth from fertile lips and bear fruit of nobility through art, music, theater, photography, dance.

The Cleveland School of the Arts is a repository of mean streams being perked into gentle flow-howling glow.

Lines of communication were drawn and nurtured, and there at school were slaves of their own inner violence.

Slaves of systemic abuse are set free through art.

The best of the worst become potential prophets and see-saw, seeing into clarity.

The photographs speak specifics, my words attempt to swallow a general flow.

The river created from streams of life.

 

About Larry Fink
Born 1941, Brooklyn, New York
Lives in Martins Creek, Pennsylvania

Fascinated by life's rituals, Larry Fink has photographed baptisms, birthdays, weddings, picnics, sporting events, and even the world of fashion. Interested in people at all stages of life and all levels of society, he focuses on the character and personality of each individual. Fink has described his approach to documentary photography as "political, but not polemical."