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Photography & Oral History Project – Seeking Participants

The note below is from my Facebook & Craigslist ad seeking more participants for my latest project.  My goal is to create an ongoing series of portraits and oral histories – exploring gender, body image/size, sexuality and race – to be shown in a gallery and web space.  I am so very excited about this [...]
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SF Pride and Art Updates

Wow, my last post mentioned the San Francisco LGBT Pride festival & here it is again, the next year later!  Sometimes this blogging thing gets away from me:)  Speaking of the festival, I love Pride week here in SF because it’s like a holy week; Market Street is now lined with rainbow flags, there are [...]
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Locative Media Artists

During this spring I have been drawn to ways that the human body and human emotions can be explored using locative media. My initial thoughts were that this mapping form of art would be particularly useful when I begin working with queer community in the Dominican Republic, but I was having trouble envisioning the scope [...]
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MUNI & Stress Mapping

My original stress track created with a Garmin GPS unit while I was waiting at the Balboa Park MUNI station. It was frustrating to wait for a train that never came! This was where my idea for mapping stress began. and then I thought of this…an abstraction of female anatomy: Explorations of stress relating to [...]
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Links About the Alemany Area & Urban Farming

Alemany Farm Islais Creek – audio memories Alemany Housing Development research Project H Design proposal Urban Dictionary definition of “Alemany” Interview with Jason Mark about the farm Another urban farm, Ghost Town Farm, in Oakland
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Alemany Farm & Neighborhood

Recently I visited San Francisco’s Alemany Farm. My project partner and I took two buses to get there and when we got to our drop-off point, the intersection felt like no-man’s land. Strange really, because there were townhouses behind us, freeways in front of us. Just beyond the freeways were more townhouses. To our left [...]
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Walking with GPS

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Bill Viola Event

On September 30, 2009 I attended Metaphysical Medium: The Video Works of Bill Viola at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, CA. The artist Bill Viola was present and gave a talk on his work and processes. The works shown were Déserts, The Passing and my personal favorite, Two Women. Death [...]
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Multi-Media Event at the CSC

Earlier this year I attended a dual preview night of Thank You for Being Urgent by Silas Howard and Slightly Real Confessions of a Poser by Lynnee Breedlove (both former band members of the queer/dyke punk band Tribe 8). The opening performance art piece was by Heather Acs. The show was hosted at the Center [...]
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Harvey Milk for Everyone

Since I’m a queer-identified woman who is very happily out, and because today is National Coming Out Day, I thought it most appropriate to post “Harvey Milk for Everyone,” a photo collage by Atsuko Morita.  I, along with many others, was photographed for this awesome piece while parading around at this years San Francisco LGBT [...]
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