what I’m thinking about today
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.
Painters Palette
“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
women’s rights are human rights
Thousands gathered at City Hall and at different points throughout the city of San Francisco in direct response to the current decision by the Supreme Court to overturn the fifty-year precedent known as Roe v. Wade.
If you need assistance, the The National Abortion Federation can help you find a provider in another state, arrange travel, and pay for your care: 1-800-772-9100. Follow them on twitter
Stay up-to-date at Reproductive Rights dot gov
Gimmie shelter
From my archive. Thinking of all the children, families and community in Uvalde, Texas; and communities around the country. If you are moved to do something about gun violence in our country, please Text ACT to 644-33 to get involved with Moms Demand Action Network
“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 Civi Center, San Francisco
A Treasure Comes Back
This image added on Tuesday September 7, 2021.
Jazz has always been an important part of my life, integral to my life, just like photography. Just like cycling. Just like tea. Put the two together and it brings a lot of happiness. I use to be the kid that would stand outside the clubs to hear, Eddie Cleanhead Vinson, Gabor Szabo. I just liked the music. Years later with a drivers license and the right to vote, I was very fortunate to have photographed for a small club in exchange for entry. The Jazz Hall brought the kings of jazz to an intimate setting. The night I met and photographed jazz drummer Elvin Jones, I thought I died and went to heaven. Simply known as the Jazz Hall, it…
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Close the wealth Gap, Keep SIPS OPEN
Today was my first day out in public, among others, among other citizens since the onset of Covid.
I was reminded how much I missed being around community, their pets, and signs, smiling and welcoming each other.
It was such a beautiful day to be protesting threatening conditions that may force more people back on the street in the glaring face of a virus with Greek Alpahbet attached.
The federal funding is here. The will of the people have spoken: Keep the Shelter-in-Place hotels open.
Save lives.
AnaElisa 