It was just last year...

It was just last year..., by artist Richard Ross, consists of three photomurals containing a total of 108 photographs of the people and environments in the neighborhoods served by Eskenazi Health as a “depiction of the community’s collective memory.”[1] Inspired by T.C.

While people filled with the tension of awaiting hospital services sit waiting, they could explore and 'solve' the references of ambiguous yet alluring images.

The final selects represented animals from the zoo, objects from surrounding museums, dogs and children in the neighborhood, swimming pools, the state fair—a broad swatch of images that would reference the world just beyond the hospital.” -Richard Ross[1] It was just last year... was commissioned by Eskenazi Health as part of a re-imagining of the organization's historical art collection and to support "the sense of optimism, vitality and energy" of its new campus in 2013.

[2][3] In response to its nationwide request for proposals, Eskenazi Health received more than 500 submissions from 39 states, which were then narrowed to 54 finalists by an independent jury.

[1][5] As a commercial photographer, his work has been featured in Time magazine, Newsweek, Architectural Digest, all major U.S. broadcast news networks and many in Europe, and several large newspapers, including The Washington Post and USA Today.