All That Glitters is an homage to the dreamers and schemers that make the Bay Area unique. San Francisco artist Kaytea Petro uses a homemade hibiscus ink to illustrate historic photos, lovingly depicting a bygone era. More of her work can be seen at kayteapetro.com or on her Instagram.
All the the writings were created by students at Ruth Asawa School of the Arts. Many of the source photos used to create the drawings come from the San Francisco Public Library’s Photo Collection.
Sgt. Garrity in the Marina District, 1989
The Price of Beauty
By Gigi Ginocchio and Farrah Zimmer
The sunrise was so beautiful that day,I could see the painter in the distanceWaving it’s paintbrush like an American flagPainting coarse wooden houses, redSplattering a red that bites the housesAnd turned them into ashesThe type of red teenagers were told to stay away fromBecause they could get addictedAddicted to its smell, nails digging into door framesOr its touch, leaving your skin fried
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She must have heard meIn my arroganceThink this tragedy was a beautyI thought it was a sunriseThought the colorsWere sweetAnd I could dip my spoon in themAnd taste the rainbow sherbet clouds of a sunrise,Not an earthquakeFollowed by a nasty fire
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Now as my neighborhood lies,Sporadic piles of crisp burnt woodAnd wet pipes leaking cementOr flames creeping onto treesAnd trees collapsed onto houses.
The earthquake was aAn orange burst of energyA scorching staticIt was beautiful at firstA sunrise to mark my morningA bright seductive redSeeped into the corners of orangeIt was a giant painting filling the white canvas our sky had once been,
So yesThe paint palette was beautifulThe colors stung my eyes, drew closerDeeper into red, and orangeAnd magenta, color, fuschia flamesBut the canvas was being wrecked.If this shaking came againWe wouldn’t have a canvas to work with in the first placeSo it was beautiful,But beauty comes at a price
About the poets: Gigi Ginocchio and Farrah Zimmer are students at the Ruth Asawa School of the Arts.
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