Medicated for your Protection – Portraits of Mental Illness LIMITED ...
Medicated for your Protection – Portraits of Mental Illness LIMITED ...
Medicated for your Protection – Portraits of Mental Illness LIMITED ...
Create successful ePaper yourself
Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.
Wardell is 55 and comes from San Bernardino, Cali<strong>for</strong>nia. Hehas been a resident <strong>of</strong> Harbor View since 2009. He gave me thesedetails about himself. He used to be nurse’s assistant in CovenantHospital, and he played clarinet in his high school orchestra. Hewants to go back to school to learn how to tutor children in readingand writing. Wardell loves jazz. Some <strong>of</strong> his favorite musicians areJohn Coltrane, Miles Davis, Grover Washington Jr., Dexter Gordon,and Nina Simone. I told him that I am also a jazz fan, and that whenI first noticed him sitting on the steps outside smoking a cigarette,he resembled the saxophonist, Dexter Gordon. He smiled, we talkedabout music, and then he let me take his pictures.60