I’m collecting a series of signs and found this one at Paul Madonna’s studio during Open Studios. His work combines words of inspiration with beautiful drawings of San Francisco.
Diebenkorn’s Notes on Beginning a Painting
I’ve gone three times. As you enter the show you’ll find Diebenkorn’s “Notes on Beginning a Painting” on the wall.
Going through the show I noticed and liked how you can see the layers of paint underneath. How he doesn’t try to hide his “mistakes” and instead they are part of the work.
What ways can you “Be careful only in a perverse way”? (See Item #10).
A Pledge Each Day, According to Hung Liu
One Billion Rising
Women and men rising and dancing in the streets.
You can see it on the Internet at
What is it?
-A global strike .
-An invitation to dance A call to men and women to refuse to participate in the status quo until rape and rape culture ends .
-An act of solidarity, demonstrating to women the commonality of their struggles and their power in numbers.
-A refusal to accept violence against women and girls as a given.
-A new time and a new way of being.
I like what Alice Waters has to say about what today is about.