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1. Art/Official

   Good — let's do ArtSpan the same way. Q1: How did this one come about — did you apply to be considered for the ArtSpan Selections show, or were you invited based on your existing ArtSpan membership?

2. Artist

   I did apply for it. in a way it all came from me starting to be apart of the city Art Gallery, the co-op gallery in san francisco on valecia street. after starting to show, alot of the artist there were part of artspan, so I did the artspan open studios and became a member, I also would apply and got into a couple of artspan sponsered exhibits. so was around and getting shown, so made the artspan selections cut when it came around.

3. Art/Official

   That's a good throughline — City Art Gallery on Valencia Street as the entry point, then Open Studios and membership through the artists already there, a couple of sponsored exhibits along the way, and Selections 2017 as the point where that accumulated presence paid off, rather than a cold application out of nowhere. Q2: The Selections 2017 show was a juried group exhibition at Heron Arts — how did your Digital City / Megacities work sit alongside the other selected artists in the space? Was there a sequence or theme to how work was arranged, or did pieces just find their spot?

4. Artist

   It was all based off the A Colorful History Series paintings, and I think for the show I made the lombard street 1925 - not the original version but a newly painted one that looked much better.

5. Art/Official

   Good to have that pinned down precisely — it wasn't Digital City or Megacities at all, it was A Colorful History, specifically a repainted version of Lombard Street 1925 made especially for the show, distinct from an earlier original. That's an important correction to the record, not just a detail — worth making sure it lands correctly rather than the assumption we'd been carrying. Q3: Anything happen that night worth keeping on record — the gala itself, a reaction to the piece, meeting any of the other Selections artists or the jurors?

6. Artist

   was a nice evening and met a couple of people in the art world, I sold the lombard street for 800, and then got commisioned to make another one from the show.

7. Art/Official

   That's a good outcome to have on record — not just a juried selection, but a direct sale (Lombard Street 1925, $800) and a commission that followed from it. That's a real, concrete result of the show, not just exposure. Q4: Looking back now, where does ArtSpan 2017 sit in the arc of the practice — was it a turning point for A Colorful History specifically, or more a marker of a period when you were embedded in the San Francisco co-op/gallery scene?

8. Artist

   was the height of the San Francisco A Colorful History run, I think I talk in other chats about the decision to move to berlin to make new art and expand, but this show was the height and there was a future as an artist in SF at this point, but the city cost so much, I felt that I would really have to push just that series harder than I wanted to, I still wanted to experiment

9. Art/Official

   That's a meaningful note to land on — ArtSpan 2017 as the peak of the San Francisco run of A Colorful History, right at the point where staying meant doubling down on one series to survive the city's cost, rather than the continued experimentation you wanted. That's the same fork that led to Berlin, just seen from the SF side of it rather than the Berlin side. That completes both dialogues.