Art Therapy №4: Ambulance Chase

TBT to Father’s day 2014. It’s so hard to find gifts for a real hoarder, you don’t want to validate accumulating “stuff.” I always tried to find ephemeral gifts for the man as the problem got worse. But some of the things he collected were just so uniquely him and something to celebrate.

He embraced the stigma of being an attorney, an “ambulance chaser.” Every vacation or trip he went on he’d have someone photograph him posing behind an ambulance. He’d have those photos printed in large format, framed and mounted in his office. We’re talking photographs from Moscow, Tel Aviv, South Dakota, Maui.

So, in 2014 it occurred to me at Target in the toy section that building this ambulance with my 2 y/o and doing a little forced perspective photography would be an experience we all could share (not stuff) with special leave behinds. I worried about how lonely he was and wanted to remind him he had a unique “mark” he left.

There’s maybe a more metaphoric take on this in that the way he treated his health was an ambulance chase, but really I just think this picture is Funny AF.