"We May Be Trash But We're A Family"

Family photograph, portion of religious pamphlet, pencil, charcoal, chalk, lipstick, felt pen and glue on cardboard, 11 x 13.75 inches, Saturday, March 6th, 2021, Cathedral Hill, San Francisco.

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"The Mercy Seat (Reverse Draft)"

And so but then after doing the two previous Mercy Streets, I decided to work backward and do what I think of as a reverse draft, as often times the bigger pieces spring from things I have initially done on cocktail napkins and coasters.  Which netted me this.

Pen, pencil, lipstick and charcoal on cocktail napkin, 4.75 x 4.75 inches, Sunday, March 7th, 2021, R Bar, San Francisco.

And, yes, as previously mentioned - there will be more Mercy Streets in the future, you can bet on that.

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"The Mercy Seat"

After doing the previous Mercy Seat, which took me several hours as I plotted out the aspects and materials, I thought it might be nice to just sort of do one in five minutes or less, which netted me this.

Pencil on torn butcher paper, 13 x 11.5 inches, Saturday, March 6th, 2021, Cathedral Hill, San Francisco.

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"The Mercy Seat"

And so this is what I waited nine years to do.  Slight changes from the tiny scrawl of the previous post; Danielle commanded me to stop before I added the crows and blood, arguing I could make another one and include those.  Which I plan to do.  She is a big fan of this, which certainly gave me some confidence, not going to kid you, and inspired me to do the two which you will see in the following posts.  And then, going forward, I'll be revisiting this some more, likely sooner than later (with crows and blood in at least one).

Charcoal, painters' tape, masking tape, pencil, pen, felt pen, chalk, crayon and staples on  printer paper, 22 x 17 inches, Saturday, February 13th, 2021, Cathedral Hill, San Francisco.

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"The Mercy Seat"

Pen on notebook paper with a staple, 3 1/8 x 3 inches, Saturday, March 24th, 2012, Little Red Hen, Green Lake, Seattle.

This was the very first version of Mercy Seat, from nearly nine years ago.  It was on a larger piece of paper and sort of scribbled into the corner as a pretty basic idea.  But I liked that basic idea, I did, and so did two more versions, larger, shortly after this, neither of which will be presented in these pages.  And so but then I always meant to come back to it, and now I have, as you will see in subsequent posts.

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"Cross for Peeber (a.k.a. Here's to the Trains I've Missed)"

Charcoal, chalk, pencil, cellophane tape and lipstick on cocktail napkin, 5 x 4.5 inches, Saturday, February 27th, 2021, Cathedral Hill, San Francisco.

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"Cross for Chris Stokes"

A postcard fashioned out of a Talisker box for Chris Stokes of San Francisco, California - charcoal, lipstick, pencil and stickers on cardboard, 3 and 5/8  x  3 and 5/8 inches, Friday, February 26th, 2021, Cathedral Hill, San Francisco.

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"Library of Margaret Murray"

Lipstick and pencil on torn page of, likely, Shakespeare; a book owned by my Aunt Margaret when she was a teenager in school in Los Angeles, approximately 100 years ago.  6.5 x 4.25 inches, Saturday, February 13th, 2021, Cathedral Hill, San Francisco.

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My Recent Submission to the Whitney Museum of American Art

For complete context, take a look at the post immediately before this one.  The Whitney got a more basic cross (right, I know - even MORE basic!), but then I tucked it inside a CA state park fee envelope, sealed it, and called it something like "Black Cross Inside CA State Park Fee Envelope".  So the next time you are at the Whitney, keep an eye out.  Wednesday, January 27th, 2021, Cathedral Hill, San Francisco.

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"First and Second Black Crosses on Torn Pabst Packaging"

So what I was going to DO was make two little crosses, one for me and one for the Whitney (see subsequent post), but then Danielle walked out and was like, "What are you doing with those? Can I have them?" (Or words to that effect.)  So, you know, I gave them to her.  That's black painter's tape on the torn Pabst.  One's like 3.25 x 2.25 and the other 2.5 x 2.25.  Wednesday, January 27th, 2021, Cathedral Hill, San Francisco.

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"Postmark San Francisco Plus Self-Critique"

Crayon, lipstick, felt pen, pencil, painters' tape, charcoal, cellophane tape, torn newspaper, torn envelope, torn matchbook and staple on butcher paper, 7.5 x 9.75 inches, Saturday, January 23rd, 2021, Cathedral Hill, San Francisco.

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"The Book of Job"

Lipstick, felt pen, pencil, painters' tape and charcoal on butcher paper, 13.5 x 17.75 inches, Saturday, January 9th, 2021, Cathedral Hill, San Francisco.

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