One City, Two Bridges,
mixed media on canvas, 10”x10”
No travel themed series would be complete without a San
Francisco piece. It’s easy to
forget that we are a travel destination when we live our lives in Everyone’s
Favorite City. Living close to Alamo Square, it still baffles me a bit the
way so many tourists traipse up that
hill for that photo. I did this piece with vintage postcards
from the 1930’s and 1940’s. It’s
noteworthy to point out that San Francisco postcards were all about our two
bridges back then. Other themes
were our skyline and the exoticism of Chinatown. There were no cable cars or Victorians on San Francisco
postcards in the 1940’s. Obviously
these were just seen as old and had not yet reached the point of being
charming. As I go through
postcards from different places and different eras there are noticeable changes
in what sort of attractions are “postcard worthy.” That’s said, our two bridges are still the big stars.
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