The Art Of Healing
Passing: Death's Doorway
©1997 by Deborah Johnson
A gallery of 28 images from Deborah Johnson's stunning and moving portrait studies of patients in geriatric and psychiatric wards.
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I had gone in search of winter landscapes
White on white on white -
Snowy sheets laid over earth's old bones,
cracked, crackled parchment leaves.
Echoes muted,
shortening of days, low glimmer light.
Storms drove me inside (in more ways than one);
Visiting the elderly,
I found white on white on white -
Snowy sheets laid over weary bones,
cracked, crackled parchment leaving
echoes, muted into shortening of days,
A low glimmer's light.
Deborah Johnson
Winter, '78
Learn more about Passing and the work of Deborah Johnson. A more extensive videotape version of Passing is also available.