In November I went with my friend Mercy to the Richard Avedon exhibit at the Detroit Institute of Arts. At the end,
we went into the gift shop area for the exhibit and a woman in a motorized scooter asked my friend Mercy to pose
for her using a hand mirror. The woman said it was part of a photo project she was doing. Mercy is a good sport
and agreed.

I pretty much forgot about it until a couple of weeks ago when I was looking at one of my lists of favorite PBase
artists and spotted a photo of my friend Mercy posing with a mirror . Of course, I clicked on it and was surprised
to find the photographer was Patricia Lay-Dorsey, a fellow Pbase artist with whom I had corresponded a couple of
years ago when we talked about having a PBase artist meetup.

I remember back then being impressed with Patricia's photo project "Facing up to my face." She was 65 at the time,
and taking a honest (and beautiful) look at what age does to us all by photographing the wrinkles on her face.

Since then, Patricia has documented, again through self-portraits, her life with MS, a disease she was diagnosed
with when she was 45. Her photos are honest and inspiring and sometimes simply amazing. Her work even caught
the attention of NY Times photo blogger James Estrin.

I urge you to take a look at her work on PBase and on her web site at www.patricialaydorsey.com.