Artist Statement!

Johnson Park!

Working on this assignment was a excellent personal journal. I took my digital camera and sat in on home owner meetings health alliance forums and captured pictures of the area in a four month period. I learned a lot about a Johnson Park that otherwise i would have just kept riding the bus past the neighborhood and not realizing the wonderful things that were going on for a community after many years deserved a turn around. I felt privileged to meet the people of Johnson Park. The community pulled it self together and with the help from funding has turned the area into a place to buy real-estate. I took pictures of residents, the garden and participated in sub-committee meetings. It took years of trial and error to come to the success of this community. So i hope the message received from our blogs is a positive one and shows other devastated neighborhoods they can do it too, just takes a little elbow grease.