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Category: Fort Mason

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    Fort Mason Green * * Peace by Benny Bufano Benjamin Bufano has many pieces throughout San Francisco. This statue, featuring a child within a larger statue represents the peaceful blending of cultures. The green sits on the hill above the actual fort.  Called Fort Mason since 1882, the location at Point San Jose, as this…

  • Fort Mason – Wind Arrows

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    * * Sailboat wind indicators mounted at on 3-foot intervals on a flagpole at the east end of Fort Mason illustrate how the laminar flow of wind changes with the height.  This variation is often more complex and dramatic than expected.  Along the San Francisco shoreline, for example, the difference of only 20 feet in…

  • Fort Mason – SEATS

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    Fort Mason SEAT Exhibition Notice the QR code on the front Biked by Eddy Joaquim “Biked is a hybrid seat/bike rack with QR codes leading to bicycling maps of the area.” Eddie Joaquim is a product of the many countries he has lived in. An photographer with an architectural background he is a very unique…

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    Fort Mason SEAT Exhibition * * Cirrus by Jeremy Alden “Through use of materials and form Cirrus investigates and celebrates dualities: of earth and sky, power and beauty, time and change.”  J Alden Design is dedicated to provocative product, ceramic and furniture design with work ranging from mass-produced products to commissioned pieces for private and…

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    Fort Mason SEATS Exhibition * * Listen to Jimmy 1953 by Seam Studio “The year is 1953…the place Fort Mason: U.S. Army Port-of Embarkation (1909-1962). Take A SEAT on the footlockers of WWI/WWII/Korean-War soldiers…SIT on transport boxes for goods+ammo…imagine yourself here listening to 1940s/1950s music assigning vocal memory of the once bustling military activity deploying…

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    Fort Mason SEATS Exhibition * * Life in a Small Place by Paul Zengyu Discoe “Life in a Small Place is a concrete box with trees growing out of its top.  These trees will grow and change as the chair ages and blends with its legs.” Founded in 1988, Joinery Structures is a design-build studio…

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    Fort Mason SEATS Exhibition * Seat 8 by Joel Cammarata “Serpentine bike rack conforms to the existing loading dock providing seating and tables for public interaction.” According to Joel Cammarata’s Etsy site:  I am an architecturally trained designer, woodworker, father, and husband using small amount of spare time and garage space to create pieces of…

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    Fort Mason SEATS Exhibition * Sent Forth by ARUP + Jefferson Mack Metal “A stranded time ship plays centuries of soundscapes revealing histories of the area”. Sent Forth is conceived as a time-travelling airship which has been collecting audio recordings of San Francisco across the centuries. Recently, the airship has become stuck at Fort Mason…

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    Fort Mason SEATS Exhibition * Band of Brothers by Malcolm Davis “A trio of salvaged eucalyptus trunks stand together facing the bay  As sentinels, they reference the function of this site since the Spanish military in the 1700s”.  Malcom Davis (Architecture) is a Bay Area native with an intimate understanding of its regional building styles and…

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    Fort Mason SEAT Exhibition Asana by Christine and James Desser “This Asana, “seat” in Sanskrit, like a big river rock, offers a comfortable pause for meditation, contemplation or to simply notice what is: the sea, the sky, the air, the sounds, whatever is arising in this very moment.”

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    Fort Mason SEAT Exhibition * The James Caird by Lawrence LaBianca and Robert Buckenmeyer “Bravery and courage saved the open boat journey of Ernest Shackleton and five companions” The voyage of the James Caird was an open boat journey from Elephant Island in the South Shetland Islands to South Georgia in the southern Atlantic Ocean,…

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    Fort Mason SEATS Exhibition   * Case Study #22: Arboreal Thrones by Kristen Franz A pair of chairs combines site specific lumber and repurposed old chairs, highlighting the juxtaposition of natural and manmade elements. Kristen has a degree from UC Berkeley, B.A. in Environmental Design  

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    Fort Mason SEATS Exhibition * Last Flight by Bicycle Fabrications “Takes it shape and dimensions from the Saqqara bird, an ancient Egyptian artifact that demonstrates an advanced understanding of aerodynamics” The Saqqara Bird is a bird-shaped artifact made of sycamore wood, discovered during the 1898 excavation of the Pa-di-Imen tomb in Saqqara, Egypt. It has…

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    Fort Mason SEATS Exhibition SToP by Cary Bernstein   * * “SToP celebrates the decommissioning of Fort Mason – Swords to Ploughshares.” Cary Bernstein graduated from Dartmouth College in 1984 with a B.A. in Philosophy and Russian Literature. She received an M.Arch. from the Yale School of Architecture in 1988. The office of Cary Bernstein…

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    Fort Mason SEATS Exhibit JW4 by J. Weiss Design “In WWI & WWII, concrete ship building was pioneered in Oakland. Our dry docked SEAT uses a new high-performing concrete that allows for greater, thinner spans.” Jennifer Weiss has over 18 years of architecture-related experience, including working for the architecture firms Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, KMD…

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    Fort Mason SEATS Exhibition * * * * * Flotsam by David Allen “A transient, contemporary ruin that stimulates the contemplation of forlorn beauty, time, weather, decay and distant shores.” Again, an explanation for those not up on marine vocabulary, flotsam is the wreckage of a ship or its cargo found floating on or washed…

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    Fort Mason SEATS Exhibition * Fender Bender Bench by JC Miller “Inspired by the materials, colors, and equipment typical of human activity in a marine environment.” For those not familiar with the term, that orange item is used to keep boats from hitting docks and other boats when moored and is called a “fender”. J.C.…

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    Fort Mason SEATS Exhibition * * The Eel: Eliciting Ethereal Light by VeeV Design The eel explores relationships between physical environment and human sensation. Traversing the spectrum from corporeal to ethereal, the eel responds to external stimuli by emitting both heat and light with ranges of color intensity. The eel is clearly solid matter. Yet…

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    Fort Mason SEATS Exhibit * Moor by Russell Baldon “Simple chairs-fastened but movable-the same situation as the ships that once used the bollards”. I must admit, this one so struck my fancy. The use of that gorgeous and immense bollard and the wonderful play on words were just perfect for this type of exhibit. Born…

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    Fort Mason SEATS Exhibition * Floating by Valerie Gnadt “A tactile experience. Sit. Close your eyes. Feel the texture of fabric and air.  Listen to the foghorns and seagulls. Imagine floating in the Bay surrounded by Fort Mason’s History.  A truck tire covered with hand-woven fabrics from out door materials, tarps and a marine cording.”

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    Fort Mason SEATS Exhibition * * Benches by The Bay by Leslie Bruning “Designed to look like varied sizes of the Shovelnose Guitarfish, a species of the shark family living in the San Francisco Bay, these benches are meant for a human family to sit upon.” According to Bruning’s website: Leslie Bruning was born in…

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    Fort Mason SEATS Exhibition * Kissing Bench by Kent Roberts Kent Roberts has several pieces around San Francisco, including a boat in the Marina.  He has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of New Mexico and a BFA and MFA from San Francisco Art Institute and he works at SFMOMA.

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    Fort Mason * SEATS Exhibition Bow Seat by Oliver Dicicco “An homage to all the small boats that have plied the San Francisco Bay.” According to Oliver DiCicco’s website: Oliver displays the versatility of a renaissance artist. He is a multi-talented designer who is at the same time sculptor, fabricator, scientist, engineer, and musician. The…

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    Fort Mason SEATS Exhibition * Safe Harbor by Jefferson Mack “Public seating for humans and bicycles, an essential for re-creation, personal development, and civilization. Reflect on values overlooked in your modern life.” According to Jefferson Mack’s website he has been involved with the metal arts since 1990. Aside from architectural products, Jefferson Mack Metal features…

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    Fort Mason * SEAT Exhibition “The Bracket Collection” by Pallet Studio provides dignified seating for anybody in mundane and over looked spaces. The Pallet Studio artists are Michael Wlosek, Lukas Nickerson and Andrew Perkins.  According to Michael Wlosek’s Facebook Page he studied architecture at California College of the Arts and is from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. According…

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    Fort Mason SEATS Exhibition   * * This piece is high up on a retaining wall. The chair is by Brian Goggins and is very similar to his Defenestration Piece running South of Market. The description that accompanies the piece is “Fortitude” A submarine chair transforms our perception of space and objects. This “submarine chair”…

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    Fort Mason SEATS Exhibition Solstice by Brian Martin * This is part of the SEAT installation at Fort Mason.  The seat exhibit showcases work that reflects on the history of fort mason center and responds to the natural elements of the site. Each piece is meant to be gently sat on and then you can…

  • Paper in the wind

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    I popped into the SF Fine Art Fair that is going on this weekend.  This is titled Paperlight Fortress by RISD grad Paul Hayes.  He is known for his site specific installations, and this isn’t the first of his I have seen, it was just the first I saw with camera in hand. In Paul’s own words…