Open Space

TRANSLATION(S)

The creation of space. Shared space(s). Time is mysterious, perhaps deceiving. Disorienting. Non-linear. “Translation(s)” : seven,...

LUCID DREAMS OF THE APOCALYPSE

I. Departure Electric organ releases shimmering block chords, alternating between higher and lower registers. A melodic line slowly...

HERE THIS TIME

1 I have an alarm set on my phone that goes off five times a day To remind me Five times a day That we're all gonna die I think you...

BELONGING NEARBY

Tiffany Sia, Too Salty Too Wet 更咸更濕. Courtesy of the artist. Dear Readers: My personal story accounts for a tiny fraction of the multifaceted...

ON FASCIATED FANTASY

I am sensitive to noises but somehow wind chimes do not disturb me. In fact I am fond of wind chimes. The wind is faultless or at least...

FIRE AND RAIN: TWO WORKS BY TERESITA FERNÁNDEZ

Teresita Fernández, Fire , 2005, silk yarn, steel armature, and epoxy. 96 in. x 144 in.. SFMOMA, Accessions Committee Fund purchase,...

FRANK'S CORPUS

I am trying to account for the body of a bird I knew. Human metrics for bird bodies tend to be comparative, since their purpose is...

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

VIEWING INSTRUCTIONS: When: Dusk or between the hours of 1 a.m. and 4 a.m. Location: Anywhere it is safe to light a white candle of...

SEARCHING FOR FRANCIS MCCOMAS

Francis McComas , 1924. Photo by Dorothea Lange. Image courtesy of Le Grande Dix. I was daydreaming in a quiet California art gallery...

SOPHIE SRII

BETWEEN BREATHS, BETWEEN BEATS

A ritual. benediction. a memorial. baptism. time | sound | movement ripple and collapse onto bodies of water     of tissue       of...

A DURATIONAL INTERIM

PROXY Fall Film Festival, 2019: The Last Black Man In San Francisco , October 11, 2019. Amid the hum of urban life on a warm fall...

TRIBUTARIES

Viewing Suggestions: When: Dawn or noon, preferably a Saturday/Saturn-Day. Location: Where a stream meets a larger body of water; a...

PRELUDE

I live on the fourth floor of a tall apartment building in San Francisco. From my bedroom, I meet the gaze of crows perched along phone...

“I NEEDED THIS TO BE HERE”

The early stage of the CHOP Garden inside the Cal Anderson Park. All photos: Jeffrey Hou, June 2020. From June 8 to July 1 of last...

SAVE THE DATE

Photos: Amadeus Regucera. How might an intimate relationship to sound, frequency, and vibration inform how we participate in shaping...

BELONGING IS A STICKY WORD: ROBERTO BEDOYA IN CONVERSATION WITH TOM DECAIGNY

“Place-making” is a term with origins in the discipline of landscape architecture but absorbed into urban planning, development, and...

CODES OF CONDUCT

Photo courtesy of the author. My father, an activist for Taiwan independence, often says that being unable to determine your own fate...

ANOTHER YEAR BY

So much of my practice is influenced by daily interactions. Shared moments among those I hold space with have always interested me...

THE EMOTIONAL LABOR OF PARTICIPATION: TAMIKA L. BUTLER AND JUSTIN GARRETT MOORE IN CONVERSATION

Tamika L. Butler and Justin Garrett Moore are consummate community builders and advocates, leading in design, government, and transportation...