Open Space

SIGNALS FROM THE WEST

Signals from the West c ommissioned artists, from the top left: Maxe Crandall, Sophia Wang, Dauzaun Soleyn, Christy Funsch, Sophia...

THE LETTING GO. 500 CAPP STREET

A work by Nina Canell from her Drag Out exhibition at 500 Capp Street, which closed early at the artist's request. Photo by author This...

ELEMENTS

Humans are essentially attracted to dramatic intersections of the natural elements, attracted physically and emotionally towards places...

THE WORLD'S FIRST MYSTERIOUS WORKS OF ART

His accomplishments are all real, and His good reputation is definitely deserved. - Wall text for Stone Seals by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha...

LINE, CIRCLE, DOT

Click any image to enlarge. Many years ago, at my first library job in San Francisco, I came across images of Gordon Onslow Ford's...

WHAT'S BLOOMING?

Look for Ribes sanguineum , or “pink flowering currant,” growing abundantly in Golden Gate Park in early spring. Polygonum capitatum...

FOR KEVIN: “CAN'T GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD” EMBEDDED IN A THOMAS KINKADE JPG

BELONGING

Naz's garden in San Francisco, May 2019. June 25, 2019 San Francisco Dear Mine, It was not easy to get here. It took me many rainy...

POET BE LIKE KEVIN KILLIAN  

Kevin Killian performing at “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Museum” in 2013. Like so many folks in the Bay Area and beyond,...

DRESSED FOR AN URBAN NATIVE ERA

Joey Montoya on Occupied Yelamu Ohlone Territory. From his booth at the Stanford Powwow, a blue canopy stocked with dad hats, beanies,...

THE FORGOTTEN ARTISTS OF THE BELVEDERE CODFISHERY

The Codfishery remains at high tide. The bunkhouse is in the foreground. From the Dave Lemon and Jerry O'Day collection, which is housed...

MY OWN PRIVATE CELESTIAL EMPORIUM OF BENEVOLENT KNOWLEDGE

My mother-in-law recently came back from a visit to her brother's apartment, where she discovered his old fridge photos all stuck together...

FLOOR 7: AL'S PARK

We had broken up nearly a year ago but I still missed you and our walks through the quiet fissures of San Francisco, so I led you up...

FLOOR 8: 8TH + HARRISON

There are seven seasons in this city, along with a chimera of winds, a fan of shifting blues, sunlight being pulled further taut throughout...

HOW WE WEAR MOURNING: FASHIONING A DYING CITY

“T-Shirt, Blue Jeans and Nikes” Keak Da Sneak ft. E-40 Prod: Rick Rock They are coming All clean concrete And fresh surface All round...

FLOOR 4: REDLICK BUILDING

1) I once bought a round dining table with a label proudly announcing your presence in the world. That was in 1993. Redlick it read....

FLOOR 5: ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

Art is an interventionist tool, pure dialectic, mulberry branch, florum. Rainblowers calling to oncoming clouds: thesis, antithesis....

FLOOR 6: MIDNIGHT SUN

To your right you'll find a small lounge with couches facing a window looking out on the cable car stop across the street. Behind that,...

FLOOR 3: CAPITOL + BROAD

Grace grows generationally at the liquor store: My grandma was treated anyoldkindaway My daddy ran the block My high school graduation...

FLOOR 2: X2