This “abandoned couch oakland” was found just around the corner from my cottage in Redwood Heights @ Fair Avenue and Wilke Street. Not a typical find for my neighborhood, so I was incredibly happy when I stumbled upon it and considered stretching out on the dirty coverlet for a quick nap amidst the fallen leaves and the crumpled FREE sign.
Found around the corner from each other, these two abandoned couches on Waller and Fillmore. Usually, I find all my stuff walking, but I was driving when I saw these. I had to pull over for obvious reasons. Aren’t they awesome!?
found perched on the shady steps of mission dolores church on tuesday, this half eaten loaf of home pride white bread yearns to get smothered by a little jif and smuckers. 
the brown armchair cutting coupons in the 70s den. (landers street @ 15th).
great american “fine foods” soup can found on Florida at 20th street. 
found on 16th @ dolores this table top with scrawled angry message which read: “Did you think that you could take from me with no reciprocative actions? Aren’t you silly. Who do you think you were fucking with? I overestimated you. No one I really know would bring that to my table.” Yowzer! Them’s fightin’ words!!!
found at valencia near duboce this eaten discarded pear decaying in the sun.
found on 16th @ sanchez this polaroid skin.
found on 15th at guerrero leftovers on paper plates viewed from three angles.
found on guerrero @ 15th this reduced fat chunky peanut spread watches cars and people pass from the stoop and awaits the inevitable collision with a chocolate bar…
found on fell @ webster this eat the rich sign kicks back for a few minutes in the soft beige lazy boy.
found on laguna @ oak street, too blue.
found on capp street @ 20th, blue two.
found on market at 7th after the flattening event.
found on san carlos at 23 this gorgeous golden girl getting her fair share of vitamin d.
found in the alley on 25th near mission jeans spilling from luggage as the guys walk away.
found on 14th @ dolores this retro “Teknika” TV. so analog. so amazing.
found on dolores at 14th, this “spark elemental” fantasy game card waits to be sacrificed as the world moves around unknowingly.
found on valencia at 15th plastic couch with swollen lips.
found on 15th at church this toaster oven toasting its own tail. sad face!
found curbside on 16th and guerrero these succulent skins softening…
garbage food waste
found on church street at 15th this Sansui VHS player ejected from her place of slumber and forced to beg in the streets like a common betamax.
found on buchanan at market this exquisite tableau…
mattress nectarine bowl sidewalk
ode to your bursting crimson flesh, oh nectarine!
to your body now inflamed
to your half chewed sinews dreaming
to your asshole, to your eye
found on guerrero at 16th, this well-worn Kenmore DynoMite Super Power Vac rests, exhausted after a hard morning shift.
found on bartlett @ 21st, red seedy melon in plastic bag. as i leaned in to take this shot, the woman in the brown pumps said to the woman in the stilettos, “they don’t clean these streets. i mean, they don’t use power washers. that’s why they’re so dirty.” isn’t that awesome?!
found at 18th and san carlos, organic and inorganic slumber in harmony in the hazy heat of a mission morn.
found at webster @ ellis this exhausted mattress and pillow trying to get back home after a rough night on the town.
found on cedar alley at polk street these two outstanding recliners. one, a faux leather beauty with a golden haired sleeping bag aloft its battered skin. the other, a motley stained beast with three colorful condoms strewn willy nilly around the back of its mighty ass. both, deliciously filthy and worthy of admiration.
found on caledonia between 15th and 16th this morning. i got so excited when i saw the sign, but sadly, the bunny costume was nowhere to be found. maybe it hopped away…maybe the bunny was invisible (like harvey)…maybe that’s who the prodigious smelling gentleman who was nestled deep in his blanket shanty a few feet away was talking to. maybe he was talking to the bunny…
found on 11th at minna, this small empty carton of milk rising from the asphalt like an architect’s dream, forceful, dramatic, with clean lines dancing from its colorful surface. thank you for being there, Berkeley Farms Vitamin D milk carton. thank you for being exactly where you were yesterday morning relative to the buildings, the power lines, the sun. i really, really like you.
found strewn across an expanse of the sidewalk on the corner of 15th at dolores. i was crouched down getting down close to the nuts to take this photo when the UPS guy in his passing truck stopped and said asked “are you ok?” pretty sweet, huh?
found on duboce at valencia, this lone grape soaking in the bright light and warm waves of an unusually hot san francisco afternoon. last friday, august 26 at around 2pm.
found on 15th between church and dolores in tree well yesterday afternoon. an offering…
found on 15th street between market and castro, four broken records, artfully arranged.
did human hands place the vinyl this way? or did they fall so cleverly on their own? who broke the records? and why? was it part of a lover’s quarrel? did the angry partner, in a fit of rage, thrust his hubby’s prized possessions down down to the unforgiving walkway beneath their bedroom window? were his hands shaking as he slid his beloved’s classic chic album “dance, dance, dance, yowsah, yowsah, yowsah” from its colorful sleeve? did he pause to consider the grim consequences of his terrible act before heaving “yowsah” full force to its ultimate demise? could his lover ever forgive him? was this the beginning of the end?
found in a dried leaf ridden tree well on dolores between 15th and 16th, mid-cloudy-afternoon. see the magic apple gnome peeking its curmudgeonly face and one bright blue eye from the shriveling fleshy source of the half-eaten delicious apple.
torn and tattered san francisco chronicle advertising section in a stairwell on dolores between 16th and 17th. this was on a tuesday morning at about 930am.
ode to the comfortably numb & totally fabulous paper cup.
crushed. flattened. kicked to the curb.
no worries. relaxed. colorful.
nuzzling tenderly with the marlboro light in the bright summer hayes.
nestled in dying leaves.
becoming again, the thing it once was.
earthy pulp and soil.
the quietness of disintegration.
banana tagged as “mine” on blue metal grill, valencia street with ed and amy.
on valencia between 17th and 18th walking with amy and ed. we agreed that one can only enjoy so much plan blanco enriched and then it’s like “get this bag out of my face before i eat the whole thing!”
found on the altar of mission dolores church on dolores at 16th. when i walked by two hours later, the peanut butter and bread had been placed beneath a tree at the edge of the sidewalk, but the flowers, the photo of saint therese and the cherry remained.
sticky, disheveled trident gum found in sidewalk crack on laguna at oak. (see 1971 trident gum commercial below for a trip down memory lane…)
it’s very common in SF for people leave food on or near the base of trash cans so other people who might be hungry can easily find it. here we find a loaf of half eaten whole grain bread, its large plastic blowing in the 8:39am thursday morning wind down market street at duboce. it was doing its own thing amongst other things which were also, interestingly, doing their own things. and so it goes…
plum, found on 18th street between valencia and guerrero.
red fleshy juicy ruby bliss on market at guerrero 8:37am
golden fuzzy textured cushions softening in the long shadowed sun at laguna at waller at 8:40am
found on top of the trash bin at the corner of 14th and dolores. foster farm chicken, mostly gizzards, california fresh, never frozen, no added steroids, no added hormones, no added salt.
futon. coke. chunky monkey. on dolores between 14th and market street on a bright, very warm san francisco thursday morning around 11:30.
“work out a skeleton – work body masses around it – then build details over this” (words to live by…) found on the west side of church street at 15th on sunday, may 19 at around 4pm
