And now for a bit of explanation for the inquisitive or puzzled.
You'll notice aside the text of the purpose of this board a series of rotating pictures to which I am adding daily. You might wonder what in the world these pictures have to do with anything relating to this website. I had started with a clip of a photograph done by French artist, Christian Boltanski.

That link will take you to a page denoting the GYMNASIUM CHASES portfolio, a portfolio of photographs based on a group photo of the 1931 graduating class of the Gymnasium Chases, a Jewish High School in Vienna.

Just as you would any critic, you will have to take my words as they are written, but if curious, I suggest you look up his work. Boltanski's work focuses on "A History", it does not so much denote the individual, so much as the remnants of such. The Gymnasium Chases photos, some of which have been used before in other installations render the subjects almost muted, ghost like interpretations of their former self. We can not help but think that these photos are a part of history, and not of the present, and yet at the same time they form a sort of monument, a shrine perhaps. In fact Boltanski did several pieces which were simply "Monuments", installations of similar photos lit by unadorned light fixtures. One of my favorite installations, for its purity and depth of feeling is simply called "Les Archives". It is installed in a somewhat small room with metal racks employed along within the room's walls. Every inch of the installation is filled with face after nameless face, sans text. Quoting Art in America, October 1989 "Without text, without sanctimony, and without Holocaust imagery, it yet manages to evoke the worst horror story of modern times."

This is what I am attempting to reproduce with my borrowing of Boltanski's style, I thought it crude and unjust simply to lift his imagery without permission, so I have begun my own series. I have started with victims of the Khmer Rouge, yet I am continuing onwards until a point where the images become saturated with contradictions, another theme in Boltanski's work, one most evident in the piece Reserve-Detective. I'll let you draw your own inferences from that, and explain it more so at a later date.

The purpose behind the images is to convey the need to serve the individuals in a group, to identify them as individuals, not just statistics and numbers.

When we make half-hearted judgments as to if individuals are "dangerous" to a group, and what we should do with them, for whatever questionable reasons we make such judgments, we run the risk not only of hurting those we remove, but those with whom they confer as well, all the while establishing a code of ethics reminiscent of the rule of Pinochet, Saloth Sar, Idi Amin, et al, and yet in a less direct way.

If an environment which has been touted by Dr. Bob as effective for the use and aid of the mentally ill is to live up to such claims, we need to address these types of issues on a constant basis, simply for the health and well being of its participants.

The pictures are haunting, perhaps disturbing, metaphors of the research data that Dr Hsiung uses for his own goals; making anonymous those being used. No longer are they names and illnesses, they are numbers and statistics. They sublime into the text of the medical abstract.

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Well, you can't claim that we've been making this all up, can you? This board really stands more as a objective view rather than opinion. Here is the post that denotes our trademark. It's simply a glimpse at a moment in time. Take from it, what you will.

OOOPS!
MY BAD as they like to say in the hipster scene. While I was messing around with the template and fixing some people's links... I had inadvertently deleted this GEM, which while posted much earlier, shows our Dr. Spock, err Dr. Bob's theory of basing his moderation on poorly written science fiction. Thanks again to Soquel for finding the link.