My Dr. Sue Space » Violence http://mydrsue.com Where ideas collide with space and place Sat, 19 Dec 2009 22:16:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Sharing Spaces: Check out Student Spaces for a featured video. http://mydrsue.com/2009/07/10/hello-and-thanks-for-the-visit-feel-free-to-explore-these-pages-always-a-work-in-progress/ http://mydrsue.com/2009/07/10/hello-and-thanks-for-the-visit-feel-free-to-explore-these-pages-always-a-work-in-progress/#comments Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:54:47 +0000 Dr. Sue http://mydrsue.com/?p=3 I guess I’ve always been interested in  place.  Heralding from West Texas, with plenty of wide open spaces, I remember gazing up at the stars as I lay on my grandmother’s piecework quilt, spread out on the dry, hard earth.  I thought, There must be another world out there, one of which I have no proof except in my heart.

Many, many years later I left my beloved West Texas (which will always be home) to try out that idea.  Through my research and teaching, I explore the importance of place — how it somehow acts as a microcosm of all that we are or hope to be.  Through my photography, I hope to capture some tiny glimpse of its meaning.

Here are a few lines from “Empty Spaces” from Pink Floyd, an English rock band originating in the 1960s and 1970s and known for a subgenre called “space rock.”  It speaks to me;  hope you like it too.

What shall we use to fill the empty spaces where we used to talk?
How shall I fill the final places?
How shall I complete the wall?
–Pink Floyd

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