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September 12 through October 18, 2015
Blood Mirror, organized by artist Jordan Eagles, seeks to create an open dialogue and effect change around the US Food & Drug Administration's current discriminatory policy on blood donations from gay and bisexual men.
In 2015, Jordan Eagles enlisted a group of nine extraordinary gay men, each with a unique life story, to donate their blood in protest of the FDA’s ban and for the creation of a sculpture, Blood Mirror. Leo Herrera, activist and filmmaker, documented the process in an original, political art film.
The men who donated their blood to this project include: An 88-year-old openly gay priest; A Nigerian gay rights activist on political asylum in the U.S.; A Co-Founder of Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC); The CEO of GMHC; An identical gay twin whose straight brother is eligible to donate; A captain in the Army who served two terms in Iraq and was discharged under “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (reinstated to service in 2014); A married transgender male couple, and; A bisexual father of two. Dr. Howard Grossman, former director of the American Academy of HIV Medicine, was the medical supervisor on the project, as well as a blood donor. Each man is currently ineligible to donate blood under the FDA’s current policy — but since they cannot donate their blood to save lives, they’ve chosen to donate their blood for art.
The sculpture, Blood Mirror, is a seven-foot-tall monolith in which the viewer can see him or herself reflected in the blood of the nine donors, which has been encased and fully preserved. A totem of science and equality, the sculpture is a time capsule of the donors’ blood that embodies the 32-year history of the FDA’s discriminatory ban.
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2015_DC_KatzenX_2015D_10Years: DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015D Early Fall Exhibit: 10th Year Wall (29 photos from 2015)
2015_DC_KatzenX_2015D_Blood: DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015D Early Fall Exhibit: Blood Mirror (8 photos from 2015)
2015_DC_KatzenX_2015D_Knodel: DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015D Early Fall Exhibit: Gerhardt Knodel: Let the Games Begin! (51 photos from 2015)
2015_DC_KatzenX_2015D_Shaffer: DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015D Early Fall Exhibit: Mary Shaffer: Reflections and Contradictions (40 photos from 2015)
2015_DC_KatzenX_2015D_Pulse: DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015D Early Fall Exhibit: Pulse of the Future (43 photos from 2015)
2015_DC_KatzenX_2015D_McConnell: DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015D Early Fall Exhibit: Walter McConnell: Itinerant Edens (11 photos from 2015)
2015_DC_KatzenO_150911: DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015D Early Fall Opening Reception (Member) (96 photos from 2015)
2015_DC_KatzenO_150912: DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015D Early Fall Opening Reception (Public) (65 photos from 2015)
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2015 photos: I retired from the US Census Bureau in god-forsaken Suitland, Maryland on my 58th birthday in May. Yee ha!
Trips this year:
a quick trip to Florida.
two Civil War Trust conferences (Raleigh, NC and Richmond, VA), and
my 10th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con trip (including Los Angeles).
Ego Strokes: Carolyn Cerbin used a Kevin Costner photo in her USA Today article. Miss DC pictures were used a few times in the Washington Post.
Equipment this year: I mostly used my Fuji XS-1 camera but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000.
Number of photos taken this year: just over 550,000.
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