As I was looking around on the web for the site linked to the VW bug outside the Yerba Buena Center, I found Lauren Woods' artist statement. She gets rather poetically at that relationship between the myths and realities of living in this place that is our home. Here is the link, below is the text of her statement.
http://www.octoberbluesuite.com/
San Francisco the exquisite and its doppelganger are indistinguishable for me at times. More often than not, the ghosts are just as real as the living here and my obsession with them doesn’t allow me much rest in this fascinating city. Somewhere between the beauty of the natural landscape of the Bay Area and the power of invention, desire not fully realized produces a purgatory that is masked by fantasy and illusions of early retirement. I live and work from this place of in between, navigating the real-life matrix that is San Francisco. It is a schizophrenic state of being that induces bouts of masochism as I attempt to self-actualize in an environment that is constantly shifting and glitching before my eyes.
I calm myself by responding—shouting back, laughing out loud, resisting and submitting. Part historian, part archivist, part sociologist, part anthropologist, I research and observe, experiment and formulate in anticipation that fully understanding the unique relationships that people have with San Francisco will shed light on the conundrum that I feel is my existence here.
Mary Ellen Pleasant, the famous Abolitionist, understood the mirage, the power of performance, and the double that is this city. She harnessed its full strength and channelled it to the causes she felt just. I walk with her often—a guide to the infinite invisible cities of San Francisco to discover…
—l. w.
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