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For Kala Auction 2024

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I donated this piece “The Use of the Useless” to Kala Art Institute for their 50th Anniversary auction in 2024. The work was created by using the scrap wood from my previous project “Treadling a Lost Journey” for which I … Continue reading

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Kala Auction 2021

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I am donating this study piece with bars of burnt redwood which back side is painted with fluorescent red/pink.

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Exinclusivity -Space of Inclusion Opened

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  Around challenging lives of refugees, “Exinclusivity -Space of Inclusion” is a project designed to be a multi-media installation piece which consists of interviews, singing and other contributions from participants who are refugees or asylees. The core idea of this … Continue reading

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My piece for an auction at San Jose ICA this year

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39th Annual Connect & Collect Art Auction and Exhibition September 28 – October 26, 2019 560 South First Street San Jose, CA 95113 > MAP I am donating my piece to San Jose ICA again this year. The title is … Continue reading

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Interview Excerpts from Tenderloin National Forest

Rolling Counterpoint at Tenderloin National Forest from Taro Hattori on Vimeo. Thank you so much, Orazgul Tachmuradova, Bonnie Borucki, Carl Tinelle, Ezell Bishop, Linda Griffin, Tasha Antonette M. Griffin, Torye Nguyen, Eva Mitala, Mr. Ernie Burstall, Erin Doyle Ebeling, Kalifa, … Continue reading

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Interview on SquareCylinder.com

David Roth interviewed Donna Conwell, curator at Montalvo Arts Center and me for our Rolling Counterpoint (http://www.rollingcounterpoint.com).

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Another Piece for an Auction

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For an Auction at Kala Art Institute 2017 Called it “Afflictive Boundedness.” I was thinking about how our ego creates a wall around us, and how this inner boundedness of our identity fails and spills out.

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Trailer Version of “Rolling Counterpoint” Teahouse

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Airyka Rockefeller took these pictures of “Rolling Counterpoint”

Photographer/Artist Airyka Rockefeller took these beautiful pictures of “Rolling Counterpoint” in the 5 hour sculpture event at Montalvo Arts Center. Her website: www.airykarockefeller.com

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“Rolling Counterpoint” at 5 Hour Sculpture Event at Montalvo

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Rolling Counterpoint Teahouse at Night

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The Teahouse for “Rolling Counterpoint”

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Collaborating with Koji Saida from Saida & Sullivan Design Partners, the exterior of the teahouse for “Rolling Counterpoint” is getting done. “Rolling Counterpoint” is commissioned by the Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA

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Rolling Counterpoint

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SFAC

I am not a 2D artist, but I have realized that I actually enjoy drawings… Well, I have been drawing all the times, but I actually get pleasure out of it. Passport by SF Arts Commission.

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Studying a Study

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Stairway to Heaven

This is a project I did at Millay Colony, working with Edna St. Vincent Millay Society which would organize tours of her land. I created miniature stairways which go down to Edna’s nude party swimming pool. Karen Kanan Corrêa played … Continue reading

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A write-up by Christian L. Frock

Christian L. Frock wrote on KQED about “Art & Soul” at Oakland City Hall and my work there! http://www.kqed.org/arts/visualarts/article.jsp?essid=104611

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Oakland City Hall Final Iteration

Somehow the combination of perfectly mathematical architecture and perfectly assembled sculpture became unbearable. So, I destroyed the piece (re-installed as destroyed/disassembled). This process taught me so much. I became more aware of these things: 1. what the character of architecture … Continue reading

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Well… Hope this one works out…

Went to Rancho Seco Park for shooting… just a making photo at this point : )

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