Winterfest 2008
The san francisco bicycle coalition fundraiser and art auction. I donated a piece called " Dangerous Mind". This piece is from a new series about ideas and thoughts that get run over or forgotten.
San Francisco Bicycle Coalition
@ SOMArts Gallery, 934 Brannan Street (at 8th St)
Art preview: Saturday, December 6th 6-8pm
Party: Sunday , December 7th 6pm-10:30pm
Free valet bike parking provided
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> about the art auction
11 eleven
A benefit for "Toys for Tots" at Reaves Gallery.
The pieces in "11 eleven" are a new series. The images are my original images taken in india on a small plane flying from goa south... There were four different stops on my journey and I became more fascinated with the clouds and the outside world after reading all the local news papers on the inside world of the plane... My series started with the idea from a pink floyd song, "look mummy there's a small plane up in the sky"... thus most of the pieces are titled after different songs... 'fly robin fly', 'fly higher baby'... If you don't travel with music, one just starts to dream about things... this is one of many results...
Reaves Gallery
235 Gough Street @ Hickory, Hayes Valley, San Francisco
Thursday , December 11th 6pm-9pm
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september '08 ... "ride green / green ride" - an installation
> look at some photos of the event
november '08 ...27¢ ... " When you are hungry your eyes look bigger. Breakfast becomes lunch becomes dinner until water is filling. Running on desire everything becomes clear and you find your way. "
october '08 ...my little red book... "A twist on a doctrine; a code to live by; my own propaganda. Hope, trust, love... A wish to transform society in a secret revolution with words. Ideal ideology. Playful ideology. Loosely related to the symbolism of Mao Zedong's 'Little Red Book' with a tilted spin. "
[The original little red book was published by the Government of the People's Republic of China from April 1964 until approximately 1976. It contained quotations from Mao Zedong's past speeches and publications. It was an unofficial requirement for every Chinese citizen to own, to read, and to carry it at all times, especially during the Cultural Revolution.]
september '08 ...San Francisco... "chasing every breath, to calm the mind"...remembering. "India, sweet sweet, India. "
august '08 ...Thailand... " The art of giving up everything, to have nothing, which is more than just something...magic"
july '08 ...Delhi... " When I think I have seen the poorest conditions, I haven't. Every minute there is a new shock, one that surpasses the last and the cycle never stops. It all moves so fast, I'm onto the next imagery before my thoughts can even fully connect to the last sight. I ask the locals how their people survive and they all just seem to raise their shoulders, not giving up the answer. I'm in a constant state of perplexion. Have we got it all wrong? Is our gluttony breeding illness and violence. A constant more nation. Is less the true more?"
june '08 ...India... " What did I see. I will pick my favorite as there are so many per day. I saw these little boys in their dirt backyard of the major freeway surrounding Delhi. There were about 5 of them 4-5 years old. And they were just dancing like crazy, up & down, swinging their arms over their heads, as if to music. It looked like a huge pile of burnt trash they were dancing on, it probably was - a yard surrounded by train tracks, power lines, freeway and burnt ashes of something that has turned into nothing that is their everything. Dance floor of their world. Naked and in dirty underwear, their little dark bodies moved in the sun, complete happiness with absolutely nothing but themselves."
may '08 ...India... " While going down the street in front of the Hotel which is like a dirt autobahn framed by vendors, beggars, crippled and every moving vehicle imaginable... I saw this little boy get run over by a man on a bicycle. Everything sort of stopped. He was holding his leg laying in the dirt and mud crying. The Mom was trying to herd all her children while the one laid there. The man on the bike stopped - and then he got clobbered by about 5 kids..."
april '08 ...jump... "under the trapeze is a net. It will catch you if you fall"
march '08 ...was habe ich getan? Scheisse... "she woke up grabbing my ear asking me to please not fly away and look what I have done - I've crashed into the moon"
february '08 ...missing my friends in Antwerp... "scarves are the new hats. you almost shouldn't leave home without one"
january '08 ...in Berlin... "happy like yesterday"
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(copyright: kelly rapp 2008)