FEAR HEAD

Day 7, Mural Completed and Wonderland Opens

2009-10-22T20:12:00.000-07:00

Went to kinkos first thing in the morning to get the title signage for the mural. After that I headed straight to Boddecker Park to meet Lance and the other artists and some friends I had invited. Afterwards we went out to our projects and I talked to all the viewers who got to come by and see the Mural.

This project was really amazing from the first day. This was THE smoothest installation I've ever worked on. It was almost too weird how this all fell together. Thanks Roman and Robert... You guys killed it!!! Thanks Lance for putting us together and getting us out there. Hope we can do this again SOON!

Credits
We would like to thank these indiviuals who came out and helped us install.
1 AM Gallery
Daniel Pan
Anna Lopez
Rocio Romero
Jordan Bogash
Dorian Hood
Chris Bradt
Quinn Arneson
Alex
Crees
Barrett Moore
Sheldon Woo
Joe To
Sean Boyles
Roan Victor
Dennis and Jennelle Crothers
Eric Aguilar

Everyone we may have missed...
THANK YOU!

Also please check out 1AM's Flickr page on this project
http://www.flickr.com/photos/1am_sf/sets/72157622461892395/

WORLD PEACE!!!

Photo's courtesy of
chartno3 (main shot)
Joseph To (night shots)
Leonardo Minjarez (traffic view)

Day 6

2009-10-22T19:34:00.000-07:00

What was left on this day was pretty much just clean up. Also my friend from El Paso Eric Aguilar had some time off and was generous enough to hangout and help as well. While I was painting a trans-sexual stopped by and began to stare at my backside as I was painting. Eric let me know that this was happening and with that the trans-sexual politely said "I was just admiring your nice jeans." Just at that moment a man stopped by and complimented the mural and asked if we were going to seal it with something and I told him "no". He responded with the question "Just a Prayer?" I said "Yup!" He then insisted that we pray over the mural sometime over the weekend. "Let's do it right now!" I replied. His eyes brightened and he set his bottle of liquor on the ground next to the parking meter telling us to all hold hands. So Eric, the lush, the trans-sexual and I all held hands nearly joining a circle until Eric said we need to touch the wall, so we did.
There the man gave a Really amazing prayer! It was as if he knew what the mural was about and asked god to protect it. I couldn't explain it but I felt a strong tremor of energy. It was quite powerful I must say. We then said our goodbyes.

After that we were pretty much done so Eric and I continued to help "Offstage" with their project. We were able to get all the moving sculptures mounted into their places by the afternoon. We were also able to use the lift that we rented for the mural to lift up the third sculpture to its place on the corner of Market and Golden Gate Ave on top of the hot dog place Show Dogs. Korka and Chris were very happy and their project looked amazing!

Day 5

2009-10-15T14:05:00.000-07:00

Got off to a late start but again took full advantage of the lighting on the building and the streets. Highlights were we got the eyes put into the girl and blue devil. Got plenty of spectators again including the police as they stopped one of the viewers for drinking in public. In between the painting we attended the BBQ and got to meet all the other artists which was awesome. Afterwords we continued with painting until 1AM.

Day 4 Rained in

2009-10-15T13:53:00.000-07:00

We had gotten really far on day 3 so we were ready for the rain. It really rained a lot!

Photos courtesy of Brian Bixby

Day 3

2009-10-13T10:11:00.000-07:00

Thanks to Roman's keen intuition we went ahead and got a lift despite the forecast for rain for half of the day. We did get a little drizzle for like five minutes but after that we had all day and all night to work with no problems. Highlights for the day were the currator Lance Fung and Elain from the CBD came by. Also the documentary crew for Wonderland, Eliot and Gina came in and took some shots. All day we had people coming by and commenting and helping. Thanks to Artist Sheldon Woo for seeing and correcting some proportion issues! Robert kept us extremely focused and we managed to knock out a good portion of the project... Thanks Robert!

Second Day

2009-10-11T22:10:00.000-07:00

We've gotten farther than we all expected thanks to everyone that has come and helped!
We'll have a list very soon of everyone that has helped on this installation so far.
We definitely want to give you our gratitude for all of your help!

Photos courtesy of Dennis Crothers

First Two Days

2009-10-11T21:30:00.001-07:00

First Day,
We got on to a good start and were pleasantly surprised to find out that we had a well lit wall all evening long! We worked til 10:30 pm.

Behind Market Street on Golden Gate

2009-09-15T21:13:00.000-07:00

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

2009-09-13T21:35:00.000-07:00

In San Francisco there is a giant monster watching the people of its neighborhood walk by its enormous head. It sees its residents and visitors with six enormous eyes walk by with the looks on their faces and the experiences that happen day by day. This monster has a face of fear. Why is it in a state of fear? Well you see this enormous head is fed everyday and its food is saturated in this horrible emotion. The homeless feed it everyday every time a police officer is on the same block. The Police feed it everyday when ever they get a call about violence. The onlookers feed it as they watch the police and the ambulances wail through the streets. The immigrants feed it everyday as they try to assimilate themselves into San Francisco and the United States. The Prostitutes feed it every time they meet a new John. The drug addicts feed it when they don't get in contact with their dealers. The drug dealers feed it when they go meet their clients. The Tourists feed it when they walk a bit too far from the plaza. This head eats and eats and has become to be in a permanent state of fear. Every time it eats it gets bigger snorting lines of the poverty stricken and getting drunk on the urine of the schizophrenics as bedbugs infest its skin. It can taste the worlds fear pouring down its streets. It fiends for the unhealthy. It looks at the unemployed like its staring down at a buffet.

This enormous face and head is a mural and it lives in the Tenderloin.