Long-Distance Art
A Facebook memory inspired artist Jane Connor to send an unfinished canvas on a journey around the world.
The social media site reminded Connor, owner of Wine & Design in North Beach, of an earlier failed attempt at a collaborative painting.
“I was living in Texas at the time, and my friend in Ohio mailed me a painting she wanted me to add to, then send back to her. It sounded like a lot of fun, so we did it. Then it got lost in the mail.”
Connor decided to try again, with ambition. She’d enlist artistic friends all over the globe to add an element to a painting that would eventually be auctioned off.
“I wanted my good friend and my sister who live in Australia to contribute to it,” says the transplanted Brit. “So I created a Facebook group so we could follow the painting as it traveled. We haven’t lost it yet.”