Do Not Try to Comprehend
The art of Ocean Beach has grown its own, organic form.
If you walk along it on the rare clear night, you will see life forms along the beach, spaced a couple yards apart, that look terrestrial, or perhaps marine, or maybe it's alien. In the centers of the pods are fires, which are ringed by long, tall immobile shapes that form one unit altogether, which looks something like roots of old growth trees which grow so beautifully above ground and merge into the trunks. Or is it some kind of giant sea anemone?
If you walk along it in the daytime, you may notice that there are precisely drawn lines in the sand, rectangular shapes that extend around you. As you walk farther, you notice the creatively interlaced rectangles go as far as you can see in the sand, and that you are being caught in a kind of maze of interest. You find yourself drawn towards appears to be the center of it, as the rectangles become smaller and more integrated in that direction, and there is a man standing there, drawing. How many hours has it taken him to make this pattern that you are walking through while being careful not to step on the lines. The patterns are a kind of modern art, a la Mondrion, and you are freed to engage within it, the beach becoming the new canvas, the artist the new imp.
As you reach the street corner at Judah, you may see a poster on the telephone pole that says "Missing Person: missing from somewhere, that's for sure." Below is a full color photograph of a man playing the guitar. Below that it says: "Do Not Try to Comprehend." On the bench alongside the little restaurant, Java Beach, near the telephone pole, you will very often see the man in the picture, playing his guitar.
by Tantra Bensko
http://lucidvision.mosaicglobe.com
If you walk along it on the rare clear night, you will see life forms along the beach, spaced a couple yards apart, that look terrestrial, or perhaps marine, or maybe it's alien. In the centers of the pods are fires, which are ringed by long, tall immobile shapes that form one unit altogether, which looks something like roots of old growth trees which grow so beautifully above ground and merge into the trunks. Or is it some kind of giant sea anemone?
If you walk along it in the daytime, you may notice that there are precisely drawn lines in the sand, rectangular shapes that extend around you. As you walk farther, you notice the creatively interlaced rectangles go as far as you can see in the sand, and that you are being caught in a kind of maze of interest. You find yourself drawn towards appears to be the center of it, as the rectangles become smaller and more integrated in that direction, and there is a man standing there, drawing. How many hours has it taken him to make this pattern that you are walking through while being careful not to step on the lines. The patterns are a kind of modern art, a la Mondrion, and you are freed to engage within it, the beach becoming the new canvas, the artist the new imp.
As you reach the street corner at Judah, you may see a poster on the telephone pole that says "Missing Person: missing from somewhere, that's for sure." Below is a full color photograph of a man playing the guitar. Below that it says: "Do Not Try to Comprehend." On the bench alongside the little restaurant, Java Beach, near the telephone pole, you will very often see the man in the picture, playing his guitar.
by Tantra Bensko
http://lucidvision.mosaicglobe.com
posted by Tantra Bensko at 12:20 AM
2 Comments:
I stumbled on your site from SF Caco. Speaking of bay area art...I love the deviant side of street art in San Francisco (like: http://www.billboardliberation.com/) I love it when creative folks morph ordinary sites into something sarastic and rude. Damn, I miss California!
The article is chalk full of negative comments by TaylorMade about the square design. golf packages By adjusting the weights, a golfer can affect both the trajectory and direction of the shot. They're very calculating, technical people. He agrees that in the case of golfers with slow swing speeds, the square driver might be helpful.
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