Yesterday my friend Beverly drove into
San Francisco from her home in Mill Valley and we spent the day together. As it happened, it was her birthday, so I was
especially delighted to be with her. We
hiked the big loop up on Mount Sutro, where the hearty Sutro Stewards were
working on the trails, as they do the first Saturday of every month. (NB – I helped one Saturday and it was such
strenuous work that I have shied away ever since; my vulnerable back is simply not
sturdy enough for the challenge, so many thanks and kudos to those who were out
there!)
Beverly is a prominent ceramicist, and I wanted to show her what I was learning in my beginning art class at College of Marin. I took her through the cut-outs, the values, the milk carton, the logo, and then my little scribblings of line and texture for our current book project.
From there we went down to the de Young Museum, that glorious Herzog & de Meuron copper-clad edifice in Golden Gate Park, to see the new David Hockney exhibit, “A Bigger Exhibition”, feasting first on lunch and coffee in the cafe as we waited for our timed entrance. OMG, this was even more mind-blowing than the recent Diebenkorn show. The volume of his output, the quickness, the colors, the use of iPad and digital cameras. And then Beverly said, “He’s a texture guy,” and suddenly I understood what we are trying to accomplish in our line and texture art project. Already in the past week, I had started to notice texture I had never been aware of before – the diamond pattern made on the sidewalk by light through fencing, the back side of Trader Joe’s graham crackers. My art class has given me a new way of seeing, and I am so grateful.
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