September Exhibitions in Berkeley

1.

 Sidewalk art

 What lies beneath

 Push pin pointillism

  American Thanksgiving dinner,
Does this turkey make my ass look fat?

The Cubist cul-de-sac

 Surrealist boudoir

 

 Another day,

Another dharma

 Soon the entire world will be commodified 

2.

 

 Panama-Pacific

International Exposition

 

 The Jewel City

San Francisco 1915

 Bijoux of nostalgia

 Panama-Pacific

International Exposition

at San Francisco

1915

 Holding up the walls

 The cost of life in the bay area,

The Labor of Hercules

World Fairs begin and end in time gone by

The flush of youth,

the shock of the new

 Hard won

The Golden West

 The glittering city of dreams

 Take from someone who spends a lot of time on the Bay

Treasure Island is cold and windy, 

Lonesome and dark

 .

 Humanist ideals

Writ large

 Civilizations of the bay

Fall and vanish away

 Vaguely recollected on the street today

So we wait for the train doors to open

To take us on home...

Yipes stripes!

Oh to have been the breeze,

And those sneaker spats,

Hand off, R. Crumb, she's mine

August 2015