Found Art: Curtains (May 21, 2013)

I saw these curtains from a distance. They covered a large window. I'm not sure exactly how they're constructed, but I liked the pattern of light and shadow created by the folds in them. Found art.

Found Art: Stairs and Shadows (May 16, 2013)

On a recent trip to Healdsburg, I stopped in at my favorite gallery there (Erickson Fine Art Gallery). There is a set of stairs there covered in galvanized sheet metal. As I was leaving, I noticed a bold pattern of light and shadow that looked like art to me.

Found Art: Chinese Dog Hair (May 12, 2013)

The pattern of hair on the head of a Chinese dog statue. I saw this outside a San Francisco Chinese Restaurant. It looked like swirling ocean waves to me. It looked like art.

Found Art: Kiln (May 8, 2013)

Last Saturday, on a visit to Berkeley on the way home from San Francisco, I stopped at a number of pottery studios, as it was the weekend of one of the annual open house events at the Berkeley Potter's Guild. I liked the look of one of the kilns. A simple, geometric composition. Found art.

Found Art: Tape and Street Paint (May 4, 2013)

Paint on a roadway and strips of red tape combine to create this abstract composition. Found art.

Found Art: Hanger Shadows (April 30, 2012)

A coat rack. A row of hangers. Oblique light from a nearby window. Shadow art.

Found Art: No Parking Wall (April 27, 2013)

Another muted composition created by repeated attempts to create graffiti and repeated attempts to stamp it out. Accented by a broken "No Parking" sign. Found art.

Found Art: Handle Shadow (April 23, 2013)

A store display. An old-fashioned book press sitting atop an old newspaper. The multiple shadows cast by the handle of the press looked like art to me. Found art.

Found Art: Paint-splashed Wall (April 18, 2013)

Paint splashed on a wall already painted and peeling. Layers of color. Different textures. To what end? I do not know, but I like the way it looked. Found art.

Found Art: Spray Paint Spider (April 14, 2013)

What was intended here? Just a spray paint doodle on a sidewalk, perhaps, but it looked like art to me. Like a spider, but not quite a spider. Found art.

Found Art: Battered Air Conditioner (April 10, 2013)

It's not often that you see an old-fashioned air conditioner pushed into a window around here. It's not hot enough at night. I remember these mostly from New York, long ago. This one, in a San Anselmo store window, has been battered about rather thoroughly, but the crushed vanes created a rather interesting pattern, I thought. Found art.

Found Art: New Potatoes (April 4, 2013)

Crisp-looking pink orbs. These new potatoes looked amazingly fresh at the Santa Rosa farmers' market not long ago. Found art.

Found Art: Two Lichens (March 31, 2013)

Two lichens on a painted white post. One, flat, crusty, bright orange and with fruiting bodies. The other, pale blue-green, with little tufts of fingers. An interesting contrast. Found art.

Found Art: Fancy Brickwork (March 27, 2013)

I saw this fancy brickwork not long ago on the facade of the old armory on Mission St., in San Francisco. Looked like art to me.

Found Art: Painted Log (March 22, 2013)

I'm not sure exactly what this was meant to be. I saw it outside a store in San Anselmo not long ago. A carved and painted section of a log. Not a sculpture. It seemed to have once been part of a display for the store it sat in front of. It looked like art to me.

Found Art: Brown Paper and Sunlight (March 18, 2013)

Early morning sunlight transformed this unfolded paper bag into  a study in line and shadow. Found art.

Found Art: Morning Mangoes (March 14, 2013)

Early morning sun on a stack of mangoes at the grocery store yesterday morning made quite a pretty picture. Looked like art to me. Found art.

Found Art: Green Parking Lot Stripe (March 10, 2013)

I saw green stripes like this one painted over the ends of the white lines separating parking spaces in a local parking lot. I don't know what they mean, but I liked the look of them, A splash of color against the grey, white, and black backdrop of the parking lot.

Found Art: More Painted-over Graffiti (March 5, 2013)

More painted-over graffiti in Berkeley. This time, in shades of red. I wonder why people that paint buildings don't set aside paint of the same color as the original paint job to cover up graffiti? They always seem to be groping for the right color and never finding it. Inadvertently, they create art.

Found Art: Painted-over Graffiti, Berkeley (March 1, 2013)

Graffiti can be interesting to look at. Graffiti defaced, covered over with more paint can be even more interesting. Found art.

Found Art: Peeling Paint, San Francisco (February 24, 2013)

Peeling paint, rotting wood, lichens taking hold--all slowly ravaging this yellow-painted wall, but still somehow beautiful. Found art.

Found Art: Baguettes in a San Francisco Bakery (February 21, 2013)

A row of baguettes in a San Francisco bakery creates an abstract rhythm you can almost hear as your eyes wash over the surface. Found art.

Found Art: Lizard Skin (February 16, 2012)

The skin of this lizard, a monitor lizard I saw in a Berkeley reptile shop, looked like art to me. Found art.

Found Art: Two Arrows (February 12, 2013)

Roadway arrows fascinate me. I don't know why. These two must have seemed confident and assertive when new. Now they are old and worn away, one overlaid with the other, this second one a newer, younger arrow that itself has faded. Looked like art to me.

Found Art: Blue Window (February 7, 2013)

Why is this window painted blue? I don't know, but I liked the blue and the blue tape enhanced by the milky swirls. Found art.

Found Art: Painted Door (February 3, 2013)

Someone added a squiggle of white chalk to this door frame with panes of painted glass. Looked like art to me. Found art.

Found Art: Sidewalk Paint, Berkeley (January 29, 2013)

On a recent trip to Berkeley, I came upon this painted design on the sidewalk. It appears to be a symbol of some sort. Is some meaning unknown to me intended? It is in a code I cannot read? I don't know, but I liked the look of it. Found art.

Found Art: Socks in a Berkeley Store Window (January 24, 2013)

These socks in a Berkeley store window looked like art to me. Found art.

Found Art: Battered Black Truck Bed (January 20, 2013)

I happened to walk by a battered black truck the other day. Virtually no surface left unscratched, but with the raised areas more scratched than the lower areas--creating abstract patterns like this one. Found art.

Found Art: Plaster Wall, Carmel Mission (January 16, 2013)

A plastered wall at the mission in Carmel. I visited last summer. This was among my photographs. Plaster applied for purely practical reasons. Paint swirled in, or swirled over the plaster. Much appears to have been rubbed away. Whatever the history of this piece of wall, it looked like art to me. Found art.