Friday, December 18, 2009

Staying updated

Although the Constellation blog may no longer be updated - I do regularly update an online journal about my personal and collaborative projects at brianbixby.com - and here is a direct link to a post about the Wonderland project; http://brianbixby.com/?p=136

You can keep up to date with Sydney at her website; http://sydneycooper.com

Friday, November 20, 2009

De-install and some last photos

The installation will be de-installed within a few days. Thanks again to everyone for all your help and cooperation with this project. A special thanks to the Hastings staff for their help with the deinstallation and to our volunteers for taking down the drawings.



Constellation, Installation view
Photo Credit: Doug Cody


Constellation, Installation view
Photo Credit: Doug Cody




Monday, October 19, 2009

Monday / final day in san francisco





installing plastic over the interior windows on the final day



installing plastic on the interior windows





Saturday, October 17, 2009

Saturday / Opening Day


installation view, project description and photos


installation view, window with tape, stickers, drawings and photos


Sydney Cooper and Lance Fung talk during the press tour


Lance Fung visits our space during his press tour


At several points there were not enough seats for everyone waiting to do drawings


Brian assists some of the young artists who showed up


Sydney talks with Elaine from CBD and other visitors




People were sitting down to do drawings long past 5pm when we were supposed to close




Friday, October 16, 2009

Friday / installing the drawings



Sydney and Brian begin to arrange drawings in windows


Sydney cuts tape and applies it to the window


Brian cuts tape and applies it to the window


working late at night installing the tape on the windows


Thursday, October 15, 2009

Thursday / more drawing

Another action packed day walking all over the Tenderloin. After picking up some additional art supplies in the morning we met with some of the staff at YWAM, Youth With A Mission. This was a great session lasting several hours - we had so many interesting conversations and feedback from everyone who participated and we are going back again tomorrow.

We also managed to make it back to the Vietnamese Youth Development Center and RoadDogz to create additional portraits. At one point Sydney and I went to separate locations so we could make it to all the appointments today. I ended up having a great discussion with a couple of girls at the Vietnamese Center - ranging from art, career choices, robotics, future wars and the military. It was cool to discover that we had so many common interests and beliefs despite our completely different backgrounds.

We wrapped up the evening with our first visit inside the space where we are installing all of the portraits. We ran some tests and made measurements until 11pm when the building was shut down and we had to call it a day. Tomorrow will be the big push to finalize the presentation of our project.


youth with a mission


Working on portraits at the YWAM


Working on portraits at the YWAM


One of the very detailed portraits we received today while working at the YWAM


an artist displaying her portrait at the YWAM


We put several pieces on the wall at CBD in order to sketch out some display ideas


This is the site where we will display the portraits


Wednesday / working in the community

Today was a whirlwind of activity.. starting with meetings in the morning with University of California Hastings College of the Law building manager Sunny, a meeting with the Police Department, the Vietnamese Youth Development Center and Road Dogz, an after school program for homeless teens. We will have more comments later but for now I will post a few photos and would like to thank everyone who has volunteered and helped us to collaborate.


Brian Bixby and Sydney Cooper. In front of our location which is a part of the Hastings Law School


Sunny and Sydney


Vietnamese Youth Development Center


One of the artists/participants from the Vietnamese Youth Development Center


Sydney working with artists at the RoadDogz center


Sydney working with artists and the Director of RoadDogz, Machiko Saito


Curator Lance Fung speaking to all of the artist teams at Wednesday nights BBQ