© Frank Tadley
© Frank Tadley
For 20 years, Frank Tadley has worked in the field of computer recognition of the spoken word. Since 1994, he also has been working regularly at the visual art of photography.
A series of his photographs, Community Garden: Edgerton Park, New Haven, Connecticut, is featured at The Griffin Museum at the Aberjona River Gallery in Winchester, MA, June 30 through August 29. A reception is July 27, 6-7:30 p.m.
Edgerton Park is a public park given to the city of New Haven in 1965. The original owner of the property was Eli Whitney. The property was later sold to Frederick F. Brewster, a New Haven industrialist. Brewster's will stipulated the house be demolished and the grounds given to the city for a public park. The main house was razed, but the original wall, greenhouses, carriage house, gatehouse, and bridge are still standing.
Gardeners from New Haven and Hamden, Connecticut, raise flowers and vegetables in the community garden. Those lacking experience are given instruction and advice through the growing season, from early April through mid-October.
Tadley's photographs document the "life" of the garden throughout the seasons.
"My work is the result of a need to express myself," says Tadley. He adds his goal is "creating images that reveal my observations while getting a point across.Making an idea/concept and building something from it while telling a story. Being engaged with the story and with the observer of the image.A successful image tells my story and reveals something about myself and the subject. Content is the essential element."
And, he says, "Personal emotion is the key."
Tadley, of Cambridge, MA, has studied photography in the workshop programs at the New England School of Photography, Lesley University, and with photographer Keith Carter. He works primarily in portraits, nudes, and abstracts.
The exhibit also includes botanical drawings by Elizabeth Lockhart, who studied drawing, watercolor, color pencil, pen and ink, silverpointe and plant morphology with Mindy Lighthipe, Dick Rauh, Linda Heppes Funk, Katie Lee and Louisa Rawls Tine, and others.
The Griffin Museum at the Aberjona River Gallery is at the Aberjona Rehabilitation and Nursing
Center, 184 Swanton St., Winchester, MA. It is open seven days a week, 11 AM - 5 PM. Visitors
should enter at the parking lot entrance and see the receptionist.
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The Aberjona Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, the newest of the three Salter HealthCare
facilities, provides both short term rehabilitation and long term care. There are 123 beds in this
modern facility. A special wing with separate entrance and dining room is available for those
patients who require a short stay to regain their ability to live independently in the community. A
Social Worker helps the resident with adjustment issues and coordinates home care services. In
addition to providing intensive short term rehabilitation, Aberjona now as a 41 bed
Alzheimer’s unit that is designed to provide comfort for both the patients and their family
members. For more information, visit the The Aberjona Rehabilitation and Nursing Center. |
