Finally, the spectacular visuals of my night-time Mission escapades."..large, imposing, rhinoceros"
One of Freya Prowes most recent pieces. A fine example of the nightmarish quality of her works.
One of Angela Simione's pieces playing with the idea of wearing labels for internal characteristics. She spoke a lot about how stigmatized qualities of an individual are often hidden for the benefit of the public. One of her scarves had "FATHERLESS" woven into it in block letters like those displayed on MUNI to announce the route. When she wore it out, she said many people glared at her as if it were something dirty or inappropriate.
Angela Simione's pencil interpretation of Sylvia Plath's last book. The Bell Jar was published shortly after her suicide, and Simione wanted to capture the darkness and haunting quality of Plath's literature.
One of my favorite installments. Photographs and bras strewn about mixed with short stories written about an experience about becoming a woman. "First Bra" stories along with summer camp anecdotes and tales of drinking games in high school were stuck to the alternating walls of this piece.... And then I arrived at Sub-Mission
The amazing Flying Squirrel and her partner in crime doing a kid oriented show in front of a bunch of hooting and hollering, drunken adult guests.
This was the ever-so-scandalous back room with the hookah bar and the Klezmer band. (If you do not know what a Klezmer band is, I highly suggest you youtube it.)
This may be my favorite image from the night. This artist was in an outdoor enclosure surrounded by spectators taking a cigarette break, just silently painting Dolores Huerta. He took deliberate and commanding movements, but he also took his time. He carefully crafted her eyes and the shape of her face, matching the details with a small printed image on a piece of paper. He was completely in his own world.
Fabulous posting.
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