The 20th Century Room
Southpark
2000, Acrylic on Canvas, 27" x 19"After my escape from the silicon valley, I ended up in a small startup company on the fringes of multimedia gulch in San Francisco. Although we began rapidly going out of business, business was in the air—this was as close to the heart of the dot-com boom as anywhere on the worldwideweb could be, and at noon the small park off Third Street was a place to be, as counterculture battled counterculture for possession of a merchandisable vision. This was in the days when observations about people talking to themselves and walking with their hands to their heads still meant something.
