Day 369 Art Meditation, February 14, 2024

I think every day should be Valentine’s Day. Which is probably why my inner facial expression and body language is this - of my 5 year old little girl me. I’m always wishing we could all be MORE in our Heart-spaces all the time with each other, especially politically. But then I have my edges too.

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I’ve been WRITING. I feel such pressure to get my art memoir done while my parents are living, and they both have health issues. Maybe I unearthed the critical piece last night while swimming. It had been a block and reason not to write the book. I solved how to write about my mother in a way that I think she (and my family and all the congregation members and all the UCC people and then all the German UCC people and German family) will be able to read. If they do.

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Today I have a long list of Gratitudes, and most of it is for this beautiful city San Francisco I live near. It shows off the American flaw of the disparity between extreme rich and poor in a way Germany does not (as much), but I still adore San Francisco, and feel big joy every time I deliver there. 

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The two most important people in my life - my partner and my middle sister - are Art lovers, and I’m so grateful for this. I needed this to help me on my own art journey, so it makes sense that I Created this for myself when I moved back here 10 years ago. Especially since I wasn’t  planning on having an art journey, but I’m so grateful for this now too.

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G and I are both on a Soul journey that neither of us asked for, but the kicker is that at some point we both knew it’s what we always dreamed of. And that …. was a powerful moment: I chose this. I wanted this. It’s hard for our 6 parents to watch us, but the main point I try to explain is how well we are doing with our focus on creativity (our heart spaces) and not the depression that we could grow, if we focused on it.

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I am so grateful that my middle sister lives here in the Bay Area with me. She is my art museum person, in the way our mother used to be when I lived in NYC and PA. S. also loves to savor art the way I do.

My sister created the perfect sister date for us on Sunday, and we spent a half day at the SF MoMA art museum and then the Gardens on top of the Sales Force Transbay bus building. It was BLISS. This is how I fill up my inner well! 

I’m going to do a huge photo dump and explain all of them. 

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The photos:

I’m grateful for all the really sweet memories with my German grandparents in their tiny village, a huge garden and lawn for my twin and me to just play play play. I treasured especially my grandfather Opa until he died when I was 33. And that’s something I want to write about someday, because he could not have been farther away from who I am politically, and yet we adored each other. It’s such an interesting heart and ego story… I know that grandparents and grandchildren can create a special kind of love, but isn’t pure love POSSIBLE for all humans?

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The Yayoi Kusama exhibit is sold out for ages, but my sister decided to ask for tickets anyway, and someone had just returned their two tickets, so we got into the tiny box of mirrors and colors. It’s called “Infinite Love” and as usual, Art gets me there!

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There are so many books and merchandise about Yahoi Kusama and her art. The one book is paperback, full color, full  bleed, landscape, costs $35 retail, and exactly the format and price I envision for my art memoir. I found some tangible inspiration.

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For the first time in 10 years, the SF MoMA redesigned its first floor interior. It was important for me to see because it forces me to own my own Heart-Art Style even harder, when simple and Swiss graphic design continues to be “the visual standard”, and also very popular… Such an invitation for me to write and design into. 

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My sister with braids sitting in front of a beautiful Mark Rothko painting. A gorgeous abstract purple green painting by Tomie Ohtake, and what is interesting to me is that Georgia O'Keeffe painted something VERY similar during the years she taught in Texas. 

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Sheila Hicks created this gorgeous piece of fiber art, and my friend @nawili makes similar beautiful fiber art for TREES. With these art overlays, I think this must be how our souls move and touch.

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The photographs of South African photographer Zanele Muholi’s “Eye Me” exhibit are so powerful. She is a visual advocate for Black LGBTQ+ people and queer identity in South Africa. I love the silent political statements through art …

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I love that my sister knew that once I see the gorgeous mosaic tiles on the ground floor of the Garden/Bus building that we would have to spend some time there for me to be deliriously happy and take photos. 

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One of the things I love about SF is the constant merging of Mother Nature within the City. I swear it was the gorgeous SFO airport that lured me in a decade ago, with the intentional planting of olive and fir trees throughout its vast cement structure to offset carbon emissions. The urban garden on top of the trans bay bus terminal and surrounded by office buildings, is another example of nature within a city and just one of the many reasons I love SF.

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But the best part of this garden is the art by environmental artist Ned Kahn, who created bus fountains that register the movement of the arrival and departure of buses on the first level, which then activate water jets, which feed the entire garden with the water it needs. One bus triggers 10 jets of water at a time. AMAZING.

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I also just love seeing Australian trees that have the same pear shape of a woman’s body. :)

Sending much much love, Anne

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