Library, i felt like it was encased in a cloud with all of the fog and the rain and everything and so i have literally taken on this assignment with a great personal interest and i am seeing clouds everywhere. And when they first called one morning, and introduced herself and told me a little bit about this panel and this project i thought great, i know about clouds i see them every day and i work at the legend of honor, exposed to the sea with the massive mountains and clouds and i thought a piece of cake and i will just talk about clouds. It became a much deeper project but i started this talk thinking about my own biographical relationship with clouds and i was trolling through the photos on the computer and i realized that a lot of the moments that i felt important to capture, have something to do with the drama of the sky and the clouds and so here i did my masters degree in london and this is where i did a lot of research. And you get these amazing low lying clouds and of course
Curator for the blockbuster, girl with the pearl earrings, including impressionists on the water and matice from sf mona to be honored later this year. We invited melissa to speak because he told me that his cloud series was inspired by growing up looking at dramatic skies in dutch landscape painting. Welcome. Thank you to everyone who came out this evening to the main branch of the public library, i felt like it was encased in a cloud with all of the fog and the rain and everything and so i have literally taken on this assignment with a great personal interest and i am seeing clouds everywhere. And when they first called one morning, and introduced herself and told me a little bit about this panel and this project i thought great, i know about clouds i see them every day and i work at the legend of honor, exposed to the sea with the massive mountains and clouds and i thought a piece of cake and i will just talk about clouds. It became a much deeper project but i started this talk thin
Exposed to the sea with the massive mountains and clouds and i thought a piece of cake and i will just talk about clouds. It became a much deeper project but i started this talk thinking about my own biographical relationship with clouds and i was trolling through the photos on the computer and i realized that a lot of the moments that i felt important to capture, have something to do with the drama of the sky and the clouds and so here i did my masters degree in london and this is where i did a lot of research. And you get these amazing low lying clouds and of course this all resonates with the paintings that i look at and the work that i curate and this is the region of honor looking out across the Golden Gate Bridge where we get some of the most dramatic and beautiful skies. And i recently had the opportunity to go to the National Gallery of art in washington, d. C. And i was walking through the gallery and i got totally photo happy taking these pictures of clouds. And i realized th
Archiving and curating and publishing and i thought it was just amazing that i have the power at my fingertips to do anything that i wanted without any sort of limits only right here was the only limit and so the site really features other peoples work and i dont put my work on it and it is basically, i thought, what can i do Something Like interview magazine like warhol did . I have the tools and i started five years ago and it has grown into huge proportions, i think when i checked there are 150,000 unique visitors a month reading it. So it has gotten quite an audience, but really it is something that i would love, it is just pure passion and it is also a selfeducation of mine on display and my own interest. And i think i will wrap it up. Thanks. [ applause ] so for those of you who came in late, if you could hold your questions, we are not going to do a formal q, and a, but i will ask each of the panelists to stick around and if you want to chat with them one on one, they will be ve
Chosing various points of view and it presented to me this huge canvas of america, you know, that was pretty massive in terms of geography and yet just a small window and we dont see into these peoples lives and we dont really know what is happening outside of the frame or where they are going and we dont know anything about them. So i went through exploring places that went from urban areas to small little towns along the border between mexico and the u. S. And a lits dusty towns or right in downtown baltimore and i spent a huge amount of time doing that. So if you think about it, this robot takes the picture and it takes a picture consistently from the same place and it is really i guess objective. More objective than any taking pictures. Any journalist would also present a point of view. There is no point of view initially when these pictures were made, but then i am coming in and creating a point of view from within this ocean of imagery. As a flip through a few of these and let yo