Size: 7.5” x 7.5” on 8.5” x 11” JonCone Studio Type 5 Paper

Signed & stamped in verso

There’s a famous Japanese woodblock series called Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji by Hokusai. I’ve always loved it for it’s variability and honesty around a single subject. I had this idea of doing a similar project around Mt. Tam which is just north of San Francisco. We’d be out hiking all throughout the county and catch glimpse of it. It’s not a grand mountain, but it’s a cultural anchor and I’ve always loved it.

My pop who lived here in the late 60’s told me he once dropped acid at the summit and rode his bike back to Russian Hill in The City. Years later I’d swim naked in the lakes on its northern flank.

There’s an ease to this environment, a kind of informal nonchalance that wraps you in a calm embrace of redwoods and bay trees, of temperate fog and comfortable trails.

I only ever captured a single view.

Location: Marin, CA