David Goldstein & Courageously Creative

Sometimes art chooses you, even if you don't choose it :-)  A classic example is my friend David Goldstein, who was an imaging science major when we were in college.    His field of study was very rigid & technical - densitometer readings, charts, graphs, etc.   (It gave me hives watching him)  My classes were so carefree -  literally, days spent making great pictures, processing them, & discussing them.   Flash forward 20 years & David is a photographer & an accomplished painter with commissions & numerous gallery shows, and also a writer.  His first book soon to be published by Simon & Schuster.   Somehow his creativity & love for art, prevailed over imaging science.

David has a great blog at: http://www.courageouslycreative.com/.  So I asked him what has inspired him.  Ironically his early inspirations came during high school from an unlikely source, his swim coach - Mrs. Julia M. Purpura.     "Beyond practices, I wasn’t unique but instead was among generations of children she opened her home to as she encouraged our talents in countless creative areas." - David

“Mrs. P.” passed away last week unfortunately.  Greatly missed by all who were fortunate enough to get her support, she was quoted in her obituary as saying of her students “maybe the little spark I see will inspire them to achieve their dreams.”    Indeed she was right - at least for David.   Below is an image of David's taken while he lived in Hong Kong.