My Foremost SF Regret

I’ll miss the beautiful weather. I’ll miss Tacqueria Can-Cun, my superbly grumpy pho place in Sunset, and all the other great food. I’ll miss people being outwardly friendly, if often disingenuous. But my one big regret is that I left San Francisco without getting some serious work done by artist Jason Tyler Grace.

Grace, from the work of his that I’ve seen, is phenomenal. His blacks are deep, sharp, and clean. His colors – particularly at the warm end of the spectrum – are vibrant and expertly mixed. Most of all, his pieces are confidently executed, even when bringing together the sort of detail that most artists couldn’t even manage in a creative sandbox like Photoshop, much less permanently embedded into flesh.

More of his work can be seen in the Guardian’s Best of the Bay 2005 tattoo special. I’d consider going back to SF in a year or two just to have him work on me.