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Mount Sinai Hospital, New York

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Four separate installations of paintings and photographs have been placed in Mount Sinai Hospital. Works by Robert Mangold, David Row and Alexis Rockman among others are located in the PET Scan/ Radiology department. Lithographs by Ed Baynard are the Mammography Suite, and a photograph by Thomas Joshua Cooper is in the family waiting room of the morgue.

In the spring of 2007 Jason Middlebrook completed a site-specific wall painting in the Bone Marrow Transplant Unit titled Traveling Seeds. The plants depicted in Traveling Seeds regenerate by having their seeds carried by the wind and deposited elsewhere, thereby continuing the cycle of life. For Middlebrook, an artist who is interested in man's relationship with the natural world, the metaphorical quality of this act is similar to what takes place in the Bone Marrow Transplant Unit. As the artist states, “patients have received bone marrow from other people, somewhat like the seedpods floating from one destination to the next to spawn life,” in this way Traveling Seeds symbolizes hope, regeneration and the transference of life.

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Jason Middlebrook, Traveling Seeds

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Jason Middlebrook, Traveling Seeds

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Jason Middlebrook,Traveling Seeds

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Jason Middlebrook, Traveling Seeds

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Alexis Rockman, PET Scan Room, Mount Sinai Hospital

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Jason Middlebrook

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Jason Middlebrook

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Jason Middlebrook

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Jason Middlebrook

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Jason Middlebrook