turning the colonial gaze back east!!!

Sorry- some schooling just won't quit! That being said- I graduated from SFAI yesterday!!! I have earned my Masters of Fine Art in photography. The school has a rich history of churning our game changers and visual innovators...the class is full of great artists ready to take on the world.  Now- if you know me, I love to do as many things as I can at a time- so not only did I graduate yesterday but is was Gretta and my one year wedding anniversary!!! Each day is another adventure...the last two years of SF have proven that.

SFAI has one of the nicest Diego Rivera frescoes.  This one is the story of the building of SF...if you look the socialist undertones are not so subtle. I spent many hours reflecting on this 3 story masterpiece.  Really one of the finest works I have ever seen.

Marching down the stairs for our ceremony overlooking the city and bay- as much as I have been frustrated at times, the campus was inspirational...how on earth a small art school can occupy this type of view in a city so expensive.

Watch it live, or in the video...awkward as always...why would you expect anything else?

"the Erics" as we were known...

two eastern photographers always talking about how great the east was...we took advantage of each other's eastern-ness quite often...visit his site his work really is great to spend time with

free food and booze...oh...and you can hang out with new graduates...and free food and booze...

the Parrots of Coit Tower  dropped fruit on many of us over the years from those trees.

There is a fountain in the middle of there somewhere...another amazing place to relax- when the school isn't crazy

OK...in order from left to right:

Me, Linda Conor, Eric Zeigler, and Kheng Li Wee

the three of us worked with Linda extensively over our two years...

she is one of the biggest reasons we chose SFAI...and made it what it was- thanks Linda!!! I will miss that look you give us even after we graduated!!!

My install at the final show...note the bike trailer..the only one of 97 graduating grad students to not burn fuel for the install and exhibition...nice...

Pepper couldn't make the final show...after the way she critiqued my work I'm not sure I would have wanted her there anyway.

So what do you do the day after such an important day? Start the moving packing. So far we have taken everything off the walls and started patching the hundreds of holes from me tacking up prints.

bare walls from the stripping of our walls and the flowers that Gretta's office presented her on the last day of work