Labor Day Weekend at Lakeside 2018

Labor Day Weekend at Lakeside 2018. Memories in the making. 

All photos © 2018 Marilyn Stern. Please share with credit.

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Connie Rowing

A photo collage from 2003. This is my friend, neighbor, advisor, the beloved anthropologist Connie Sutton. She was at her most blissful when rowing, which she'd done competitively in college. It was the highlight of my summers to accompany her, or later when she was unable, to row her across the lake. Connie passed yesterday morning, August 23, 2018, peacefully and surrounded by family. I like to think that in her mind she was once again, on her own,  rowing to the other side. Farewell dear friend. 

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Beautiful Ruins

Driving to see an exhibition of Frederic Church paintings of Mediterranean ruins at the Detroit Institute of Art, I passed through the decaying neighborhoods of downtown Detroit. At day's end, reviewing my photos from the day's excursion, I was struck by the parallel scenes of ruin: Church's romanticized ruins from antiquity, and the reality of a once-vital American city falling into decay. I couldn't escape the obvious question: Are we too an empire in decline? 

In my mind and on my cell camera, the two realities became one. Here are photo-montages made entirely on the iPhone 7.

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