SUMMER OF LOVE EXPERIENCE

The Summer of Love experience for the de Young Museum - this one meant a lot to me because it was on the corner of Haight Ashbury and upper Haight, a historical exhibition on the anniversary of the Summer of Love, historical location, historical institution. It had a bunch of super historical, deep-rooted connections, all of it to San Francisco, the world.

So for this one, I did the letters based on not my traditional letters, but my way of thinking about art and murals, public art is it has to fit the institution or the location. And in this particular one, it was a Summer of Love experience. So I went straight immediately - I went straight to the Fillmore poster style of doing letters. And so the Summer of Love experience is based on a Fillmore style lettering, which was super fun to paint, and even the interior color design was based off of that time period.

And then the background behind it is a style of mine that I call circle style, but I really played off of the old oil projections that the artists of that time period would do at music venues, where you take an overhead projector and you put a plate of water on it, and as the plate of water heats up because of the overhead projector, the oil and paints that you put in it, kind of like a lava lamp, blend back and forward. And you never know what you're going to get, but a lot of the artists had a lot of chemical understanding - almost like they knew what kind of patterns they were going to get, maybe not how they'd move, but they knew what patterns they were going to get. Like the better artists of that time period doing that medium.

So this purple background was a direct tipping my hat to those artists that used to do the overhead projection artwork.