Project 4: Reach

...first impressions.

When you first go to San Francisco, whether you go to the Financial District or the Marina, the buildings tower over you. Their monumental facades are intimidating. But that is not the real San Francisco. The real city rumbles in The Mission district, or the Richmond, or the Sunset, where appearances are stripped down and where the living happens.

It was important for me to reach the heart of San Francisco. Ever since I first came to California I had felt an invincible desire to come back. It was a long two years before I had the chance to do so, overcoming many obstacles. No one encouraged me to come and no one believed that the decision would make me happy. But I did it anyway. And I am sure that I will come back every time I leave.

Project 3.2: Shore

"The heart can think of no devotion
Greater than being shore to the ocean--
Holding the curve of one position,
Counting an endless repetition."

Robert Frost

Project 3.1: Shore

Tide: to drift with or as if with the tide. But no matter how far away you drift, that what you are trying to forget always strikes back. The red.


"I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand-
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep- while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?"

Edgar Allan Poe