[caption id="attachment_2021" align="alignright" width="500"] embroidery on paper © Ingrid van den Brand[/caption] "Thread on paper.  Based on the simple happiness at our home where we just had…

I met Jerome Love at the Alameda Flea Market. It was closing time and most vendors were packing up their wares. He had some amazing stuff -- two of which were these massive silver metal vats for…

The impressions we make are suspended well past our physical presence or social influence. It is the small personal endeavors and gestures that make indelible indentations. Photos: Acacia Baileyana…

As with all great finds in life, they begin with the first small breadcrumb. I met Maybelle Imasa-Stukuls at a calligraphy class sponsered by Bing and Oh Happy Day in San Francisco. I considered…

I have quite possibly found a long lost brother, very nearly so! You already know by now that I run and hike to gather, and so does Francis Ooi, a creative director and amateur photographer living in…

Joseph Cornell was a consummate collector and creator in the found arts. He assembled images of birds and miniature hot air balloons, memorabilia and souvenirs, vintage photographs and old prints,…

Don’t be fooled by the calm of uncharted waters. It can be quite confusing for bloggers and webbies to know if it’s okay to post an image of someone else’s work. A few years back, I found a graphic poster on Mockingbird which made it all perfectly picture clear

Balmy Alley in the Mission District of San Francisco boasts a decades-long history of some of the city’s best and most concentrated urban wall art. The murals began as an artistic expression of anger over human rights and political abuses in Central America. Today the alley contains a variety of murals from human rights to

A French financier by the name of Jean-Baptiste Paulin Caperon owned 1400 acres in the Palo Alto foothills in the late 1900s. He assumed the name Peter Coutts upon moving to California in 1875. His…