week sixty >> "Z cover" S.BOOK in San Francisco!

Right now and through tomorrow, S.BOOK, the book we made in participation with The Art-HouseSketchbook Project and is currently on touring exhibition with thousands of other books made from scratch, is now rolling through San Fransico!  SF is dear to my heart for I grew up around the city in the Bay Area and it continues to be an extension of home for me which I routinely visit, along with my family of friends that live there.  Oddly enough, I am not there now!  Unfortunately I could not make it up there this weekend.  If you are in SF, please go visit this amazing exhibition and check out our book!  You will find it under our artist name ZBOOK, from Los Angeles,  and under the theme: Trading Forever.  On the cover you will see the familiar title: ZBOOK 4EVER, as our S(ketch)BOOK shares the story of birth and life of ZBOOK, most specifically two friends who traded a book and discovered the power and magic of collaboration. 

If you go please take photos of your experience and send them to us... we'll post 'em here!

Madrone Studios   June 16, 17, & 18   12pm - 5:30pm
1417 15th St
San Francisco, CA

http://www.arthousecoop.com/sketchbookproject2011 

Since this week we are looking at Z cover of ZBOOK let's also look at S.BOOK....

ZBOOK

"ZBOOK 4EVER" our S(ketch)BOOK

Thanks for your love and support!

∞ ceci

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week fifty nine >> " z cover" ZBOOK at LIB !

It's been a week now since I got back from LIB, and I'm still not quite back yet.  You may remember my post from last year about Lighting in a Bottle, a GEM of a festival created by The Do Lab which happens annually every memorial weekend.  I was again honored to be a live painter this year, as well as show piece in the LIB d i a l e c t Gallery.  More on that later... for today a story...

This year I brought a companion with me to LIB... my good ol' friend ZBOOK.  The ever weathered traveler, ZBOOK wanted to soak up the magic and splendor and ever expanding creativity of Lightning in Bottle.  ZBOOK wanted to be a part of it, and as always, a witness.  Here are some shots of ZBOOK up at LIB's Temple of Consciousness, the space up on a hill at LIB where countless speakers, teachers, visionaries, musicians, and artists share their gifts with us. 

O so silently, ZBOOK stood upon the alter and stage and spoke its volumes.  Perhaps next year ZBOOK will bring Jennifer and I to this prolific space at LIB to voice the teachings of creative freedom and the power of collaboration that ZBOOK has revealed through all its years and travels.

In the spirit of this set of weeks we are sharing Z cover of ZBOOK, we are celebrating the object of zee book itself, this book that has mutated and grown and weathered and traveled in our satchels for so many years of our lives.  And still, it lives!  Still with us as we travel through life, the consummate witness to OUR continuing mutation, growth, and weathering... in the ever expanding composition that is our lives. Always reminding me that I am always free to create and discover who I am.

∞ ceci

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"z cover"    cover of ZBOOK       click to view large

week fifty eight >> "z cover"

Z book cover spread

Hello Ceci Love,  I'm so thankful that these older images of us holding zbook in the roses were available to make this post... must have been spring last year.  I just spoke to my mom, construction at 1420 is well underway, which is slightly shocking because we were just there over the weekend harvesting fruits from the backyard.  On Sunday, we pulled 50 lemons from the tree outside Hallie's window, and apparently that tree is now gone, as is her window.  We also gathered a huge bowl of delectably ripe boysenberries and the most delicious apricots in the world are blooming on our apricot tree.  Did I tell you that we've had to pull back on parts of the deconstruction because of budget - and that the part we are pulling back on is the garage re-doing...so my mural will stay as well as our apricot tree and the majority of the garden... it's a good backing off from our perspective;as lovely as a two car / studio space garage would be.
    We are really getting to observe the interior spaces - the bones of the house... it's exciting.  Speaking of interiors... in these two weeks when we are sharing the exterior of zbook, ie: the cover... isn't it interesting to ponder what's inside something based on what you see outside... the cliche being 'don't judge a book by its cover".  But then, isn't it a part of perceiving things and people, to take in impressions of the outside, to drink them in.   Our beautiful, well-handled book, passed so often from my hand to yours and yours to mine - our hands are such an integral part of this spread... so lovely!!!!
 I love you and wish to see you soon and hold your hand -Jennifer