about the author
Blackbird Singing
My work centers on memory, dreams and personal history coupled with a love of the quiet elegance found in nature: it’s poetic form, perfect symmetry, color that speaks and endless mystery. From my earliest days photographing in 1979, I felt the need to refine the original ‘drawing with light’ by adding something of my own to what I saw through my lens, often giving the final image a surreal quality. For many years, I did this by hand coloring my b&w silver prints and largely showed this work. I wear leg braces due to an injury which limits how long I can walk.
A telephoto gives me the ability to walk with my lens. One can imagine my excitement when I was exposed to the apps developed through mobile photography. Here I was afforded a whole pallet, a whole new set of tools for image making. My current work is made by photographing with a DSLR and then importing the image into my iPad & Macbook for interpretation.
- Follow my art work at
- http://www.lindasbathart.com/
Linda Sbath, Solo Film - Written by Linda Sbath (Art&Photography)
Biography
Family
~Nafa suicide, poet, businessman, poet, Joe gambled his goods on a shipment. Boat sank. He was alone in Japan. He went bankrupt, punishable harshly at the time so he shot himself
~Lucy crochet, cooking
~Joe, alcoholic, Yugoslavia, hatred of dad, gambler, wealthy but died without leaving any money to his family because he gabled it away in the markets. Daughter Joyclene actress Tarak & & Michelle daughters single mother after failed marriages. Queenie Scott wife
~Andre-england in business with dad, left Dianne and met. Money when. He died at my father’s request. Pat, wife. Christine child retarded didn’t leave house, Anthony had children & was fine
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~Umpa: businessman, diabetes
~Lila, lost a child (Loraine) young; mom, don, bob
~Yaya – Puerto Rici
~Mom beautiful, cancer at 20, married my dad while getting plastic surgery to rebuild her neck by placing flesh from her thighs onto her neck. SMOKING. Died at 75
~ Dad, handsome, imitated to America after the war, alcoholic, flirted with my friends at parties. I saw. CHILD WITH WOMAN IN ENGLAND. Father’s suicide, was at bedside when he was dying at age 94.
~ Dianne … damaged, thrown into crib, bounced on floor. Locked in closet. Beautiful. Worked in Retail. Kelly. Took care of Mom & Me. Good cook.
~Don … artist, intellectual, my closest relative
~Nicolas Maksoud artist
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Dogs:
Hans, Snoopy, Harpo, Dudley, James, Oscar (Basco), McPherson, Lambchop
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Me
Wanted to be a nun till 16 years old. Prayed in playgrounds at St. Patrick’s. Nun in Mary, Help Of Christians Academy for Young Ladies told me to challenge my faith. I read Thomas Aquinas & St. Augustine & lost my fait. I became a firm agnostic … a religious one.
St. Patrick’s: playground praying, communion stockings, my Lamb is a soft & gentle One
Percocet … heaven, at peace at 16
Drugs
Marijana, Cocaine, Qualudes, Vokka (a drug); White Russian, Red wine
College
Marymount – mother’s alumnatic – suicide attempt, called Dr. Ozehosky, mom & dad picked me up next day took me home started at;
~Fairleigh Dickinson University
Job at Pier One. Stole money from register for drugs, bought marijuana in parking lot
Got caught shoplifting at Bloomingdale’s, uncle came to get me
Graduate School
~ Duquesne University: full teaching fellowship. Fred. Guided Imagery. Abortion.
Lovers
Lydia
Candy
Frances
Ellen
Steve ~ Marymount
Larry ~ poet, writer
Fred ~ briliiant
Mental hospitals
Rampo Ridge: god of light, saw saints, angels 2023
Carrier – ECT, Crazy Eddy’s
Princeton House – Haldol, running down Herronton Rd, Kathleen, my sponsor) took me back
Friends
Eileen H-L
Eileen B
Mike
Virve
Cathy Reiss
Candy Joseph
Ellen Yedwab
Larry Holpp
Student at Duquesne
Sponsors
Kathleen Cassidy
Joanna Clark
Writer
Amy
Sherri
Joann T
Artists
Tatiana
Jane Biron
Tom Biron
ICP – hand coloring
Galleries
4th St. Photo – Alex Harsley
Nassau Street Photo Gallery
Woodman
Morristown Art Gallery
Woodrow Wilson School
14th Street Photo Gallery
Operations
Nose Job
Spleen Removed: Carrier, PhiladelpHia
Leg – almost lost, 8 operations
Hip – fell after Merwick
Back
Falls:
~ Rotator Cuff