Thursday, December 10, 2009  Historical San Francisco Map  I
never got around to writing about my San Francisco Map so here
it is. I made it for the San Francisco Arts Commission for an
exhibition that ran last summer. If you're in LA you can see it
at the Japanese American National Museum till the 24th of
January. I got a bunch of emails about it from people who saw
the Map there and wanted me to explain why I made it and what
it's about.  Marci and I and a bunch of other friends were asked
by the Arts Commission to make work around the theme of "Trace
Elements". The idea around "Trace Elements" or what I took from
it was how people don't know about the history of things that
they might pass by on the street, or how things got to where
they were at and how things might have been forgotten (yeah,
like Frodo and the Ring, only not). So I thought I'd make a
Secret Map of San Francisco. Pretty much like anyone who's lived
or lived near San Francisco there's little bits of history you
learn about that can easily