We Love Letters at the Oakland Terminal

Last night I went to We Love Letters at the Oakland Terminal, a show of Graffiti/Street Art, except the art was hung on the wall, not painted on an exterior building wall.

So it was like going to a zoo because these animals are normally seen out in the wild, and there they were, in a gallery, in miniature.

My favorite works were photos of MUGRE's art on a building wall, on a train, on a building wall, and on a building wall.  MUGRE is from Columbia, the land of Columbians.

I made this drawing of a MUGRE burn.

Some woman was there from Nepal, and her tag is Imagine.  I watched her writing it for somebody in a sketchbook, and it was kind of neat to watch.

There was a big, blank gallery partition, about 8 feet tall, and people who attended the show wrote their tags on the partition.  I put my tag, "Side BUSTR" on the wall, but some weenie wrote over mine and 3 other people's tags.  I was deeply hurt and started to cry and vowed revenge on my own terms.  I saw this lack of tagging room as analogous to the lack of affordable housing in the bay area. 

All of the art was made by women, so it was clearly superior to the art of men.

Everybody who attended was beautiful.

My friends like letters and typography, and their appreciation of and interest in letters helped me to appreciate this show.

The James Gobel and Maysha Mohamedi Show Called Gift a Feast

 James Gobel is a man and Maysha Mohamedi is a woman, and their show, "Gift a Feast," was in a storefront in San Francisco in the year 2015 on planet earth.

I met Mr. Gobel in front of the storefront, at the storefront front, and he was talking with two women and then I said hi to him and he said hi to me. 

I went inside and looked at the rectangular 2d art and the ceramic collaborations between James and Maysha. 

I was mostly interested in the 2d art because I like to paint on 2d surfaces and give the illusion of 3 dimensions.

I only noticed two 2d pieces, one made from textiles and another made using paint probably.  My favorite part of the painted one was a shape that looked like half of a woman.

Artists rendering of half of a woman.
 

It was kind of hard to see the big 2d works because the room was small and they were on the ground and there was a crowd, so you had to stand close to them mostly.

James' art was good, but it wasn't as good as a woman's, and Maysha's art was fantastic even though they were collaborating because she's a woman.

I met Maysha inside the storefront, and she was nice and had a magenta colored bandage on her hand. 

After I was finished looking at the art, I said goodbye and left.