For my part of this project, I photographed the San Francisco financial district area where I have spent many years rattled by its frenetic pace. Only on weekends when it is transformed into a ghost town could I revision this harsh environment I was surrounded by during the workweek. I gave away signed limited editions of these photographs at Montgomery Street Station on a Monday morning rush hour. I was so terrified by the prospect of handing out these “gifts” to people who might not welcome them that I even considered having someone else stand in for me. In spite of this fear, I knew it would be more meaningful and possibly transformative for me to give them away personally. It was this moment of exchange that I both wanted and feared most. The final editions of the photographs and the video documentation of the event will be on display at the Lisa Dent Gallery February 2 -26, 2006.

Robin Ward's project, Death in the Park, revolved around the fact that the Dolores Park area was formerly a cemetery. Ward hand-painted small panels and attached post-cards containing historical facts about death in the park to these panels. Each panel was left for passersby to find, take, and keep.

Vanessa Blaikie's project, inspired by the spatial rhythms of birds and wires in the city, involved quiet, simple installations throughout China Basin/Potrero neighborhoods of cutout drawings; the original pieces from which these works were cut will be re-envisioned in the gallery space.

Joey Piziali recreated large sculptures identical to slices of the urban landscape - a topiary and a graffitied wall - and installed them in very different neighborhoods from where he originally found them. By recontextualizing these pieces outside their original “homes” he hopes to begin larger discussions of what art is and how it is created and valued.