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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

On Artillery Magazine, my name was listed as one of “a few artists whose range of practices reflects the incredible talent and diversity of the San Francisco region.”

I finished installing my new work for NEXT 2010, Chicago. Swarm Gallery (Oakland) is presenting these new pieces along with Ethan Worden’s beautiful work which interestingly shares a lot with my work. The official opening is on April 30.

I am actually not sure if it has been printed on their April issue, but Art in America reviewed my solo exhibition “V”. The review was by Mark Van Proyen.

Wow. I was awarded a grant for purchasing equipment! It is Investing in Artists grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation. The amount is sufficient to buy the equipment and software programs in my mind. I really appreciate this decision at this particular time. I will try harder to make great artworks so that I don’t waste their appreciation of my work. Is this a joke on April Fool’s day?

I am now in Charlotte, NC, doing my residency at McColl Center for Visual Art. The center has been treating me nicely. The city and the area around are still unknown for me and I haven’t been able to find “my place” yet.

Anyway, an exhibition of all the artists in residence will start on January 29th. I am showing four pieces from “1951,” “Coconut Beaut Brute,” and “M16″ from “Packed” along with a video that explains the project.

I took down the show at Mission 17. It was a short exhibition. The quality of the other artworks was, I think, really high. In this installation, I could not try one thing since I could not block the path to the kitchen and the view of other artworks. Here I took some photographs of the final version.