I am showing a new installation Where Do Birds Go Off to Die at San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery for a group show Now and When. The reception is this Friday June 4th from 6 to 8 pm. My work in not in the main gallery but in the window installation space at 155 Grove Street around the corner from the gallery.
Now & When
Exhibition Dates: June 4 – September 4, 2010
Opening reception: Friday, June 4, 6 – 8 pm
Locations: Main Gallery and Grove Street
SFAC Gallery
401 Van Ness Ave (at McAllister)
San Francisco, CA 94102
p: 415.554.6080 | f: 415.554.6093
Window Installation
155 Grove Street
Where Do Birds Go Off to Die (2010)
The world began without man, and it will end without him.
-Claude Lévi-Strauss
Anyone whose goal is “something higher” must expect some day to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? … No, vertigo is something other than the fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.
-Milan Kundera
When we finally disappear, nature returns. Nature erases our footprints slowly but surely, and quietly but ruthlessly. Human civilization and history we nurture becomes a part of nature gradually, and this transitory moment vanishes into perpetuity. For som, death means the beginning of emptiness, but for nature, it means the end of alteration of specific matter and the beginning of another alteration of it. Our will for civilization is vertigo. Do pelicans, who fly along the seashore, feel vertigo?
Where Do Birds Go off to Die is supported by the Graue Family Foundation.
Special Thanks to:
Nate Ancheta
Dan Bacci
Mayumi Hamanaka
Gary Nakamoto
Tomo Saito
Bassem Yousri