CONSTELLATION

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

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.