Oakland Arts Today

 

Who says Oakland ain't cute?

Angel cakes, anyone?

BART trains rumble overhead

The highway is for gamblers

better use your sense

 Zoned for mixed-use,

mixed-up ball of confusion

mixed use

 

 Flowers withstand it all

 Leaves like elephant ears

with only natural predators

 Paella pan eatery

 Some anonymous artist's

proud expression

Painted streets

 Constructions blossom

Underground petroleum warning

in a bed of shattered glass

 Strange cast-off

party dress

 Glittering holiday jumper

 Don't try to make me
go to rehab,

I said no no no

 Archeology of Chinatown

 Today in all its boldness

 Work goes on

otherwise deserted streets,

internal combustion respires

 The grid holds

when all else gets wobbly

 One's sensorium must capable

of withstanding

 The sudden passage of trains

Noise level multiples

 Is he still in the race?

 We need another Roosevelt

to come to the land of the

hummingbird

The Port of Oakland

my endpoint reached

 Setting sail for my return trip

 Some take an expressionistic perspective

almost always tending to the nightmarish

 Wow, even I have heard of them

wonder if industrial ear protection

is provided

 

The shit that gets 

rationalized

in the name of Satan

 

 Quotidian conjuring

an augury of shadows

 A vital volatility

 A tour of contemporary art history

and cultural archeology

with your Flaneur

April 2016