Happy New Year (...of the horse)

A happy new year to all of you! To celebrate the year of the horse the Art Byte Critique group decided to have a Nengajo (Japanese new year cards) meeting in december, to exchange small works and cards. Unfortunately a lot of people could not make it to the meeting, what with the year end business, but we had a good time talking about art and each other's work.

This was a laser cut stencil with embossing powder by Lori Ono.

A Greek horse hand drawn and post-processed by Bill.

One of the famous memory eggs from Arthur Huang. This one was made especially for me, it is called Wakoshi Station to Riken (our work place) and represents the walking path, including stairs, turnstiles etc from start to end point.

Art exhibited his work a couple of months ago and I had the pleasure of seeing it live. The installation represented the whole month of september, with one lane being one day, one egg one walk, spaced in 'real time' along the thread.

This was my own contribution, a cyanotyped horse, and a book re-edition of my poem Legend printed on cyanotyped paper.

La Misión (2) - the murals

Walking around in the Mission is like having a stroll in an open air museum. Just gorgeous….

La Misión (1) - Dia de Muertos

The district of The Mission is definitely and hands down my favourite neighbourhood in San Francisco. Originally knows as the Mission lands, the lands belonging to the six missions in California established  by the Spanish Catholics of the Franciscan Order in the 18th century. Mission San Francisco de Asis, or Mission Dolores, is the oldest surviving structure in San Francisco. The neighbourhood is now a major hub in the art scene, music, food and… occasional gang tensions.

… more to come about the Mission...

Picasso Park

Is this the smallest and cutest park ever? :-))

San Francisco Chinatown (2)

Mushrooms from Hokkaido, Japan?

The Eastern Bakery claims to be the oldest bakery in town. I don't know if that is true, but I bought my breakfast there every day, they have wicked moon pies and coconut buns, and one gets used to being served by grumpy old ladies :-))

- One moon pie please.
- How many?
- Errm… one please.
- Only one?
- One, yes.

San Francisco Chinatown (1)

A colorful and buzzing area of town attracting mostly tourists (myself included), and I quite liked it. As we'll see later, the "real" Chinatown lies elsewhere.

Heave Hoooo

That's what it feels like most of the time in San Francisco...

Thunder / Storm (The world outside) - [Catharsis, a study - II]

San Diego wrap up

I'm a bit bored with my San Diego pictures, so this is just a mishmash post. I mean, San Diego is a fine city alright, probably a great city to live in if you like the sea. The city centre is very neat and clean and straight, surprisingly absolutely trash free. But walking towards East Village, there is like an invisible border and by the time you cross 16th Street you know you are in a different world. And you start walking faster, and you stop taking pictures.