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     "Not certain what it is, maybe my head/eyes, doesn't matter why! Your work has a super clean, new feel from behind these new eyes of mine.

 

     I am sensing, feeling, reading and being spoken to by the Friedmanized-eyezed work on your site. Most of the pieces are really resonating quite warmingly for me in my now space. As I wandered around (your site), I felt first this calm and then this heightened creative energy. . . . whoa, thanks."

 

Stephen "Breeze" Smith

percussionist, sculptor, painter, poet

 

 

 

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     "Very creative and original and technically astute - Stan selects and prints beautiful images. He has the eye of a fine Editor - the soul of a Fine Artist and is a Poet of images and words - and - a humble man.

     I was thrilled the first time I saw his work. I own one of his pieces - a very mysterious piece - with shadows and vertical elements and waving leaves. I have it hanging on the wall at the end of the sofa where I rest in the evening and I just love looking at it."

Ruth Cochran Strick
Artist . . . Renaissance Woman
 
 
 

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     "A beautifully composed graphic image. I could easily see this as an advertisement. The low angle provides the viewer to follow along the curb to the action in complete silhouette, while the lines to the front right balance the composition. Well executed!"
 
Michael Collopy
Portrait Photographer
 
 
 

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     "That photo strikes me on a couple of levels. Initially, it evokes the distant past, when railroads were the best method of transportation to the Old West, when things were so much simpler and technology was still pre-electricity.
     But then, it also resembles (or IS, actually) two mechanical, almost robotic-looking, hands clasping each other in a symbol of agreement or unity, of working together, and suddenly the thought hits me: How is it that inanimate objects can appear so 'agreeable,' when Man, who is so much smarter than a chunk of metal, cannot figure out how to co-exist with his own?
     The Yin of the past, the Yang of the future. It helps that the photo is b/w, too - evoking the early photography of the 1800s with the potentially 'post-apocalyptic' grey of the yet unknown/future ..."

Tom Hofer
Graphics Dept.
Palisadian-Post
 
 
 

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     "Your B/Ws are elegant on their own with the added pleasure, for me--like this wondrous one, they often spark a narrative full of questions." 

 

Iris Malinsky
Writer
 

updated: 6.15.08