It’s up! Public art photographic mural exploring the theme of home in relation to Los Altos and the wider area's past and present. An Arts Los Altos project funded by the Los Altos Rotary Club. Made possible with the assistance of the Palo Alto Historical Association, the Los Altos History Museum and the many personal contributions by local residents. On display at 200 Main Street and Third, Los Altos CA
ONE HOME ONLY
Over three weekends, the exterior walls of the Rinconada Library in Palo Alto will become both canvas and stage for text, images, and pop-up performances exploring the many meanings of home. An author, a cellist, and two dancers will respond in their own creative languages, offering interpretations of home—its comforts, tensions, and contradictions. Each performance grows from a different constellation of words and images, revealing a shifting, multifaceted story of what home can be.
PERFORMANCES and participants:
Jennifer Lee, author, May 8th
Gaby Li, cellist, May 15th
Kristin Damrow Company, choreographer, May 22nd
The project is funded by the Palo Alto Public Art program and supported by the Rinconada Library.
Coming up in downtown Los Altos soon! The work of researching and collecting information and material from the local community, residents and the History Museum has started months earlier. Composing an inventory of what consists of a town’s past and present, has been a challenge and a revelation. So many layers or history, personal storytelling, images, objects, people and places. Home is the only way of connecting all this and home is the only place where all can and has to fit in; not always in harmony and order. Home in every sense, size and notion is ultimately a dynamic place where mutual or opposing emotions, connections and disconnections, conflict and reconciliation, spread through layers of history and memory. Sharing one home, one place, one town, one country, one earth could be just that. Sharing space and time.
SHELTER IN PLACE
SIP has been an intense and profound time. Full of broken realities, hopes for new ones to materialize, to merge and connect and tell stories of past and present. A time to be prepared to acknowledge uncertainty and to embrace instability. To rethink and reimagine reality.
HOME FACADES
A pandemic project in the making. Home front murals, portals into new realities. Find out ore about his project here
ON HOLD
March 12th 2020 the day before the pandemic lockdown, was a productive morning at the Gamble House and gardens. The project scheduled to launch in the Fall of 2020, is now on hold due to the lockdown measures my community and the wider world had to take to fight a global pandemic. This and a couple other similar projects I had been working on until then, are not progressing for now and if or when they resume they may take a very different form and meaning. Sharing a visual of an early idea as a way to honor a piece of work that may never materialize in its original conception but took many hours of documentation, research, ideation, on-site drafts and collaborative work.
WOMEN OF SUBSTANCE
Entering the most elusive men’s only private New York club. For one night only the “Women of Substance” have replaced the old paintings on the walls.
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ERASURE
A collection of 12 erasure drawings and paintings paired with text. Studio E6, Palo Alto Cubberley Art Studios.
“It’s a decision making process where small and seemingly insignificant actions can affect the intention toward the original imagery in unexpected ways.”
THE CASITA SESSIONS
Launching “The casita sessions” a series of projects that will roll out throughout 2020 in local venues tba. This work is influenced by a variety of literary forms; novellas, play-scripts, diaries, fables and parables as well as poetry, interviews and oral storytelling. By appointment only email here
THE GOLDEN HOMES
In the scorching Athenian heat we visit derelict homes and explore storytelling possibilities with a series of improv performative pieces that reenact domestic dreams and stories.
THE CUBBERLEY PROJECT
Audio and visual installation at Cubberley Campus this summer. Going up June 11th 2019.
FIVE DOMESTIC ACTS
Pop-up exhibit presenting five evolving performative acts in a domestic space. Food, dance and video. Book here
PLAT DU JOUR [a culinary action]
PLAT DU JOUR
a culinary action
An interdisciplinary dialogue between an artist, a writer and a chef that explores the realities and mythologies of home and female identity through rituals of food preparation and consumption. November 2018, California