Circular Reasons
It’s Pi Day. Or: π day. Or in cursive, ϖ day, but that’s also the lemniscate constant which is squircular (no, really), so we don’t want that. Not today.
First, the biggest thing that bothers me about Pi Day is that it’s annual, meaning: the earth has to travel (2π) ‘round to get to the next π day, and that is just twice too much wrong.
Like the word inflammable, the public demands that things be this way.
You might find it irrational, but there are similar possible holidays:
Sonoma Sources
It’s winter: time to work on the summer crops. I’m participating in this June’s Sonoma-wide Art at the Source 2024, and will be documenting the many changes required to my projects, printing process, book-making, billing, website, advertising, etc. that are needed for that event.
Depending on the results, consider it either a how-to or how-not-to series.
Re-Visitor
A winnah!
The Holiday Visitor of a few weeks ago has picked up a second life, as the Image Flow’s Photo of the Month for December 2023, themed: Faces You Love and Don’t
Thanks to the crew at ImageFlow! And thanks most of all to my gracious subjects Coco and Sara, who did all the real work.
Second Glimpse
A print of this landed itself in this year’s Arts Guild of Sonoma salon, themed on Ada Limon’s “Glimpse.”
Reception in Sonoma on Saturday 13 January, 5-7pm.
A Holiday Visitor
Christmas Day, 2023
The Ghost of Xmas Past
Shades of Trees the Season…
The spirit lives on in Petaluma, 2023.
Re-Dubya
A repost: the 2003 photo above, "Explaining US Foreign Policy, London," is currently part of the 15th-Anniversary Members' Show show at the Petaluma Arts Center. It was used here on Botzilla previously, in the post reprinted below.
I'll be giving a brief talk about it and some related photos at the Arts Center on December 16th, 1PM.
From November, 2003
The very day I left London last week for parts more Nordic, George W. Bush was arriving. A good or bad thing, depending on your perspective. Personally, I’d have liked to witness the public fracas, but was glad to be away from it as well. The paranoia was evident everywhere — just taking a quick snapshot of the American flag decorations along the Mall a few blocks away from Buckingham Palace was enough to attract a pair of quick-stepping constables (who had been sitting in a nearby parked van, watching the street), wanting to know what I was up to.
Lesson
Santa Clara, CA
Print Run
(2024 update: no longer available)
These three aluminum prints are currently were available on-site from
Oli Gallery in Guernville, along the Russian River in Sonoma County.
These are made as single editions – other images from the LiquiditySF project will be available later in 2024.
Seeing the Sea
Summer, and that means Tri-X, to see what can be seen.
Summer Cruising
The past weekend I was very happy to have three new Liquidity SF prints hanging in Oli Gallery in Guerneville and the connected Equality Wines tasting room, after a related but wine-less run at the gallery’s Petaluma location.
This coming Sunday will also see prints at the Triton Museum down in Santa Clara.
Two weeks ago the American Grafitti 50th Anniversary-related “Auto-Mobility” show closed - it had one of my “Cruisers” prints at the PAC, as did the “Community” competition show at ImageFlow in Marin County, early in the year.
My favorite activity at openings, when possible: stand anonymously within earshot of your work, and listen to people explain it to one another – even if they hate it. Especially then!
Penngrove Weekend
Biggest Little Parade 2022.