Looking into the Future, Remembering the Past

Looking into the Future and Remembering the Past, 2013, mixed media on fiberglass, 60"L x 63"W x 39"D, Collection of Wells Fargo, San Francisco, CA

Commissioned by the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation to create a piece for their annual Heroes & Hearts benefit, I took the opportunity to commemorate San Francisco’s Chinatown, the starting point and home for thousands of Chinese immigrants, and a very important and influential facet in the history and culture of San Francisco.

Upon a background of a map from 1885 of San Francisco’s Chinatown, a woman leads her children toward the future into the land of promise and prosperity, and what is to become one of America’s most diverse cities. Inspired by photos taken in the early 1900’s by Britton and Rev Photographers and Richard Behrendt of some of San Francisco’s first Chinese immigrants, and with the desire to pay homage to our predecessors.

Watch the work in progress