Zirker actually has two of these in the room, so this is a detail of an installation. But I took Terry’s advice and got the full body including the shoes of the Vanna White archetype.

Amanda Salisbury, a recent hire in the front office of Palo Alto Art Center, Embarcadero at Newell, did not see the Joseph Zirker show in the small conference room a few years ago, but showed me to Zirker’s work, part of our public art collection, hung in the former council chamber and one time library room.

On the way out, I saw a new Patrick Daughtery installation, and our Nathan Oliveira bronze and then, across the street, at Guinda and Embarcadero, a “Pollinator” installation of native flowering plants including “Purple Haze”, by Juanita Salisbury (no relation, or none known, not truly checking their pistels and stamens, or 23Me’s), and then, next day, I saw a nice house in that neighborhood with three signs: Anna Eshoo, Mark Berman, and John Hirokawa.

Or as Chief Seattle once said: all things connected.