I texted this view (detail) of Gerhard Richter’s “Stontium” (2005) at the Wilsey Court of the De Young Museum in San Francisco with the cryptically terse message “Halo” to a few choice viewers/victims. “Halo” in my world being a pun on “hallo” or “hello.” My indoctrination to Richter was when Bill Frisell (with Jenny Scheinman) wrote and performed a commission piece for SF MOMA a few years prior, based on a series of paintings called “858.”(2002) Please feel free to view this in the same sitting as my slide of, thanks to the University of Southern Illinois in Springfield pathology department, a vas deferens.

http://deyoung.famsf.org/about/gerhard-richter-strontium-2005

http://www.billfrisell.com/merch/richter.html

Gerhard Richter large installation at De Young