AUGUST: PORTALS
SPAIN’S WINDOWS, WALLS, FLOORS, & DOORS
Yes, this is another Spain travel photography post. It’s the last one for the next couple of months leading up to my Open Studios show on October 26-27 at Pacific Felt Factory in SF. I think I have become obsessed with doors, windows, hardware, floors, and painted surfaces. I’m crazy about them and over the last year I’ve been adding them as layers to my drawings to create collages. I like the way they add a back story with depth, mystery, and complexity to my figures.
WINDOWS ON WORLDS
A lunch stop driving along the Pilgrim’s Route (Camino de Santiago)
Catalan village window #1
Catalan village arch opens out to farmland
Abandoned building
A museum hotel along the Pilgrim’s Route (NE Spain)
Catalan village window #2
Village window with metal screen and cut outs
Costa Brava village B&B
TEXTURES
…to create this found wall as a painting
Look closely - see the writing?
CARVED
A fresh addition - an angel carved into concrete.
The opulence of Santiago de Compostela
GHOST SIGNS
Love the “s” on the wall of our friend’s home, a one-time winery next to a Roman road
Ghosted signs indicating what must have been there
Bread bakery
This is a night club
INFORMATIONAL SIGNAGE
Can you read this?
Shows it all…
Says it all…
DISINTEGRATING FACADES
Old fishing boat
This door was blue
Wear and tear over the centuries leaves a lovely distressed finish on this once-white village door.
Going back to nature
Violet flowers sprout around Santiago (it rains a lot).
Faded red = pink
Frightening message
Found composition
Fav faded green
Abandoned (in Old Jewish Quarter in Sos del Reyes Catolico)
Soft patina on metal
Disintegrating…
WELL MAINTAINED
A manicured French house of ultramarine blue and rose pink with a creamy background. Yum!
Plum red!
No - not here 2x!
Scallop shells and bold brass stars
Charming entryway
GREAT GRATES (& IRONWORK)
Deco, I think
Artistic grate set into floor-level window (Pyrenees).
Verdigris entryway
TILE & MOSAIC WORK
Mosaic tiles set into exterior walls, 20th Century, Pyrenees
Pharmacy floor in Santiago de Compostela
BLACK & WHITE SERIES
Hair salon
Reflections
Overgrown and abandoned
OVERGROWN
Hobbit house
NEW WORK
Here’s a new piece combining collages with my photos and my drawings.
GRAFFITI & STREET ART
Sete stairway
Girona exterior
Octopus on a construction site
Interesting spelling
Layers of buildings and garffiti
Many layers and colors here
LSD squirrel
Powerful black and white graffiti art
LOOK UP!
Looking up at Gaudi row (BCN)
Looking up at Gaudi row (BCN)
He looks like he’s strangling but I think it’s a mechanism to hold him upright (Santiago de Compostela).
Significant wall carvings on the Pilgrims Trail (Santiago de Compostela).
Beautiful, realistic, and surprising statues adorning an old building (Sete)
EVENING LIGHT
Rose-colored stone captures rose-colored light.
Sunset walk along the Roman Wall in Girona.
Village church
GORGEOUS PLUMBING
Imbedded ceramic pipe for plumbing
LOCKS, KNOCKERS, & KNOBS
A gorgeous shade of plum and perfect round knocker.
When you see the scallop shell you know you’re on the Pilgrim’s Trail.
Door hammer
Tiny delicate hand knocker on big, plain metal door
Eyes + hands
ANIMAL KNOCKERS
Charming dog door knocker
Cool horse door knocker
ROPE MOTIF
EXHIBITIONS
> SFWA | Aug - Juried Group Show: "Memories" (SF)
> Rite Spot | Sept-Oct | One-Person Show | "The Poster Series - Graphic Nudes" | Happy Hour Reception Mon, Sept 9 | 5-8pm (SF)
> The Mosser Hotel | Five New Works | Sept-Feb 2020 (SF)
> SFWA | Sept - Two Juried Group Shows: "Language & Letters" & "Hot Colors" | Reception Oct 10 (SF)
> Artspan SF Open Studios - 12 Artists | Oct 26-27 | Pacific Felt Factory | 2830 20th St (btw Bryant & York) | Mimosas on Sunday 11-1pm (SF)
> Artspan | SF Open Studios Group Exhibition | SOMArts | Oct 12 - Nov 3 | Reception Oct 10 (SF)
REMINDER!
Please send me a few lines about your experiences with Barbie so I might include them in my ongoing project. Thanks! srkirshenbaum@gmail.com
“Barbie on the Cusp” continues. Phase 2 includes “Barbie Takes a Trip to Spain” imagery and will be shown at Open Studios October 26-27 (SF).