Peace and Love and Noticing the Details

The U.S. Civil War ran from 1861 to 1865 and was the first modern war--shown by the enormous number of people killed and hurt. We'd ha...

Quiet but not desolate.

There's a word in the middle of your heart which isn't a word.  I can hear it, and it helps.

Don't rush to finish.  You don't yet know what this event is for.  Give happenings time to find themselves.

We won't say it's history.  We'll just tell you some of how we got here.

The flowers have the feeling of having been drawn by someone who's been drawing flowers since able to get  fingers around crayon, who co...

Explaining things that matter: Be simple.  Then simpler than that. Just say what happens. The part of reality that any given person ne...

The blue and yellow dragon is breaking through the red wall.   I'm liking it because the red wall is real, and the blue and yellow (wi...

Buttons and zippers.  The thing about buttons is that it would be very unusual for them all to fail at once, all up and down the length of w...

The entire street-facing wall of the John J. Delucchi Sheet Metal Works on Powell (near Vallejo) is painted silver, like sheet metal. Go a...

Jay DeFeo, working in an apartment on Fillmore Street in San Francisco, painted "The Rose" from 1958 to 1966.  Its current owner, ...

I sat down to wait for a bus.  Soon, a man joined me at the bus stop, and immediately said, loudly, "I hate this bus." I made a ...

A man ranting angrily down the sidewalk was ranting at a particular "you." In successive sentences, the man yelled, "You...

Walk on dirt, and feel what kind of art is needed in a bumpy world

A man in the back of the bus had some electronic music on, ambient-style, played quietly. It was doing its ambient job.  I didn't noti...