Bus stop

Scenic, I must say.

Tulip Study

Tulip study. Hommage to Emmanuel Radnitzky, also known as Man Ray

2023 De Young Open

Snaps from the 2023 #deYoungOpen artist preview from yesterday, Tuesday, September 26, 2023. Pictured above (top left) is my photograph, designated as number 20 in the exhibit, titled What it Says, a Covid-19 slice of life. Above my photograph is a beautiful quilt depicting the American Sign Language alphabet.

The exhibit is five or six rooms of impressive art forms that will awe you and instill pride in the richness of expression, humanity, and creativity. Just so impressive! I am honored to have my photograph included.

Community open day is this Saturday, September 30, 2023. There will be live music, pop-up food trucks, and film screenings. Mark your calendar! For more information please visit here and https://deyoungopen2023.artcall.org/pages/web-gallery 

CAPTIONS (top, left to right) Participating artists only day! Overall view images of artists enjoying each others work, milling about. A colorful rainbow entry greets all entering The deYoung museum.

Vertical image: Alberto, intake curator gives me a smile and notes that my photograph is officially in his hands and catalogued as part of the 2023 deYoung Museum Open. I smiled right back. My photograph titled What it Says, a Covid19 slice-of-life was taken while walking on Market Street, during a shopping trip for essentials during the shelter-in-place order.

Next series are images viewed through the gallery app. Enter the image number in the search field to obtain the artist name, title, artist statement and description.

Images 052 and 053: The top image, number 52, Untitled: from the series of Racial Portraits by Mark I. Chester and below image number 53 titled: Happy: A Marin Homeless Encampment by David Santschi.

Image 793: Photograph titled Ghosts from the Past, by Yunfei Ren, selected for the 2023 deYoung Museum Open.

What It says Redux

Mark your calendars for a day celebrating community artistic expression at the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park on September 30.  All Bay Area residents enter free. I’m so very happy to have my slice-of-life photograph, titled What it Says, wild art in the time of covid, included in the 2023 de Young Museum Open Call. The photograph taken  downtown on Market Street celebrates 50 years of Hip-Hop music and heralds San Francisco as a birthplace of music and musicians who have long called the city by the bay their home. The exhibition runs from 30 September till 7 January, 2024. Hope to see you there. 

“From the “various mineral pigments have colored these volcanic deposits. Iron salts produce the reds, pinks and yellows.  Decomposing Mica causes the green. Manganese supplies the purple color on the platte are reproduced in a larger scale on the mountains around death valley. “ 

Photographs ©Ana Elisa Fuentes

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” ― Aldous Huxley

“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall.

Think of it–always.” 

― Mahatma Gandhi

View from the law library at Civic Center, San Francisco

It’s in the Air

Over 2500 people walked together in unison on State Street in support of #FamiiesBelongTogether on Saturday June 30th, 2018 in SantaBarbara, California.
In case you need some inspiration or motivation to #Vote
Lenscratch curated a gallery of images that will have you/your loved ones off your derriere to #VOTENOW
The images are as diverse as our nation.
Have a look http://lenscratch.com/2020/11/vote-2/

Please vote your conscience.