THE SEA IS BUT ANOTHER SKY

Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture
September 17, 2026–2027

Opening Reception
Thursday, September 17, 5–7 p.m.
Part of the Fort Mason Art Walk

A new site-specific painting commissioned for the passageway between Landmark Buildings B and C at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture. is underway. The work began with the things that are already there: the setting sun, the rising moon, the water of the Bay, and the wind moving across it. I spend a lot of time noticing and collecting color from everyday life, and for this project I wanted to bring the surrounding landscape directly onto Fort Mason’s former military buildings.

The Sea Is But Another Sky stretches across 18 loading docks and the continuous walls beneath the pedestrian walkways. Each loading dock becomes another frame. As you walk through the passageway, the paintings unfold almost cinematically: sunrise becomes sunset, sun becomes moon, sky becomes sea. Your body edits the film simply by moving through it.

Fort Mason Center is approaching its 50th anniversary as a nonprofit home for arts and culture. I was especially moved to learn that in 1977, its first audiences were invited not only to attend, but “to participate, to propose your own ideas” and to become involved in bringing these old army buildings to life. I like thinking of The Sea Is But Another Sky in that same spirit: a painting that changes as you move through it, and a reminder to look again at the color, light, water, weather, and one another that are already here.