What Is It About Art?

"Art will make people better, more highly skilled in thinking and improving whatever business one goes into, or whatever occupation. It makes a person broader." - Ruth Asawa

I've been noticing this artist for quite sometime. We all do the ritual of taking strolls along the beach with a stick in hand and begin to take little brush strokes to random and playful art on sand. But never do we get more engage and creative than this artist who uses the sand as his canvas. Read on... Andres Amador, 42, calls himself an "earthscape artist." His designs often cover a space as large as a football field, created on beaches from California to the Caribbean. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/artist-makes-a-living-playing-in-the-sand/

For several years and in all the years I've live in San Francisco, this particular art installation or showcase was the charm and highlights to being a resident of the City in seeing unique art period. A recent article in the San Francisco Chronicle shared a sad episode in art work being put to rest. For whatever reason or cause. Sign of the times, transitional period. It doesn't seem to make sense when something staple or memorable leaves its mark and not be notice one bit. The article goes on to say, "public artwork are being evicted from the vacant building, which will be torn down for new housing." Really? Or is there a hidden agenda to do away with something possibly irrelevent today? Let's think twice before we really do away with art. This install probably took years to create and later become a point of reference visually. It was always eye catching when you see it at the  intersection whether your driving, biking or simply stumbling upon this city s...

There is a recent article from the San Francisco Chronicle triggered a new way of looking at art in 2014. He is someone who is daring and able to inject his visual perspective to modern society's radar or at least try. Read up on this article and you'll see. full article