covers
lush, Vol.25 (Fall 2022)
Cover image: idyllic scenery with minimal signs of humanity visible. A river flows, grass grows, trees surreptitiously pass the seasons, clouds shift, all of this and more exist and change without the need of us.
covers :: a pandemic-endemic era project (2020-2022)
A series of digital assemblages, consisting of photos taken on an iPhone, titles and imaginary headlines combined in the form of fictitious magazine covers that are composite distillations of components that are emblematic of the artist’s experiences during the years 2020 thru 2022. The photos were taken at the artist’s home, studio and garden, as well as other locations within the artist’s “pandemic bubble” and later outside of it, and from her personal archive.
As an interactive installation, the primary home of the digital assemblages is located here (on this webpage) where pertinent links to elsewhere can be accessed by tapping or clicking on covers.
As a physical installation, each digital assemblage magazine cover is printed on metal, then wall-hung sequentially at eye-level to be read as a representational timeline.
Exhibitions
April 8 thru September 28, 2023 - Sonoma Clean Power, Santa Rosa, CA - (13 covers printed on aluminum)
Sanches Art Center, Pacifia, CA (4 covers printed on aluminum)
Publication
Entanglements, a curated collection of contemporary culture - Hunger Button Books - (24 covers)
w/as, Vol 24 (Early Fall 2022)
Cover image: challenging notions of art galleries and museums one repurposed space at a time, time after time, over time with no intentions at all except perhaps to express “I am here now and this is as it was”.
trad, Vol. 23 (Late Summer 2022)
Cover image: Sunday morning waffles, a tradition that just came to be. Always with fruit or spice mixed in the batter, some kind of fruit on top and butter and maple syrup on the bottom. Two years of covers too.
crack, Vol. 22 (September 2022)
Cover image: finding cracks everywhere, some almost imperceivable, others gaping and impossible to ignore, all being filled from the moment of their creation by something else. Select a crack.
time, Vol. 21 (Mid-Summer 2022)
Cover image: across from the school, at the old house, in the secret garden behind the vegetable garden behind the flower garden, in the shed, one key to making time is found. The search continues for others.
skillz, Vol. 20 (August 2022)
Cover image: Cremini mushrooms being sliced by hand, one-at-a-time for made-from-scratch quiche in Criminal Baking Company’s small kitchen the same way they are done every single day all year long.
share, Vol. 19 (July 2022)
Cover image: Santa Rosa plums from Izzy’s garden in a cardboard box. Gravenstein Apples harvested from Bruce’s garden yesterday (not pictured) as they have already been turned into applesauce.
in situ, Vol. 18 (Summer 2022)
Cover image: multi-instrumentalist / composer / sound designer Conrad Praetzel in his native habitat. Adventures Into Somethingness is available here. Yay! Can we go outside now?
dash(i), Vol. 17 (February 2022)
Cover image: attempting to recreate unwritten recipes using only childhood memories of flavors and ingredients from Hawaii, California and Japan, and recalling visions of helping in the kitchen long ago.
aware, Vol. 16 (January 2022)
Cover image: when the world seems upside down, closer inspection reveals things to be just as they are, where up is down and down is up, and snow and stars are one in the same with simply being grounded.
shhh, Vol. 15 (November/December 2021)
Cover image: taking a reprieve from the helicopter flight path by hiking ten miles before sundown to listen to moss grow and count the number of trail bikers. Plus a chance encounter with a key to The Mandalorian.
art, Vol. 14 (October 2021)
Cover image: Rountable Postal Collage Project #11, Round 2, work in process. A project of Berkeley Commonplace. All the answers you’ll ever need, to everything, everywhere, for all time.
need, Vol. 13 (September 2021)
Cover image: homemade furoshiki (a Japanese bindle) on a stick. What is the difference between want and need? What do you need? What do we all need?
plate, Vol. 12 (August 2021)
Cover image: heirloom vegetables grown from seeds from Baker Lane Heirloom Seed Company. How much can you fit on your plate? How much do you need?
syzygy, vol. 11 (2021)
Cover image: the initial cut-out draft sketches for Materia Prima, a 3’ x 8’ street-rolled linocut for Nimbus Arts, made possible in part by The Imaginists Guesthouse Residency, InCahoots Residency and Chad at SFCB.
sense, Vol.10 (June 2021)
Cover image: still shot detail from waiting (2021), a One Minute of Life video by C.K.Itamura and Conrad Praetzel, accessible by clicking on cover image.
2B, Vol. 9 (May 2021)
Cover image: a photo of a bright pink flower and leaves taken in May 2021, on the east side of the front porch, at home. Same house. Same porch. Different time.
shift, Vol. 8 (April 2021)
Image of 1 S.P.H = 8,760 S.P.Y. a Roundtable Collaboration began midway thru the pandemic in September 2020, completed midway between Pfizer dose #1 and dose #2 in April 2021.
yonsei, Vol. 7 (Spring 2021)
Image of C.K. (age 6) in the backstage hallway just before her stage debut performance of “Fuji-no-hana” (“Flower of Mt. Fuji”).
still, Vol. 6 (March 2021)
Image of lichen covering a twig discovered during a socially distanced hike thru cow pastures at Taylor Mountain Regional Park and Open Space Preserve in Sonoma County, California.
srsly, Vol. 4 (Winter 2020-2021)
Image is a selfie of C.K. at home, first thing in the morning, wearing nine masks. “I don’t understand what the problem is.”
deja vu, Vol. 5 (February 2021)
Image of front page of The Press Democrat dated Friday, March 27 2020 found in the gutter outside C.K.’s home.
next, Vol. 3 (November 2020)
Image of C.K.’s feet wearing mismatched socks and flip-flops standing at the faded tape “X” in line at a bakery 6-feet away from the other customers.
burnt, Vol. 2 (October 2020)
Image of a piece of a bible page turned to black ash by the October wildfires discovered outside of C.K.’s studio. It completely disintegrated to dust immediately after the photo was taken.
wildfire, Vol. 1 (September 2020)
Image of white ash from the September wildfires covering C.K.’s gardening gloves as discovered on her back patio at home.