Childhood-Story:

1942 Vivid

Building-digging a trench fort in our backyard.

I hit Frank in the head with the hoe - 2" gash, bloody.

He's recovering in his crib after doctoring.

I tell myself, . 'this is no accident'.

Nancy Nick Esther Bill Monet Moses '07

The BILLDANE.COM:
Nick and I start building this Website in April '07.  
At the point I want to control some ingredients
I poked around "Blogger", the builder site,
and slowly I'm building PET MONSTER and UNITE!
and THE PHOTO ALBUM.

I hear:
... you know, this tastes just like candy.

Childhood-Story:
1968 In the hallway at U.C.
Kitaj finds me in the hall with two big paintingsafter sitting-in for our graduate seminar.
"Best stuff I've seen on the west coast, Bill.
You know, the heroics of what you're doing was
accomplished by Kandinsky and Mondrian."By late '69 this makes sense to me too.
I get a camera and teach myself to walk and look and see.

Childhood-Story:
1967 my painting studio on Mt Diablo
I'm teaching at Berkeley High.Three of us do a 6 session "District Seminar"
with Herb Kohl and Allan Kaprow
planning 'new-life' for the Schools.
(They fire me for staging lunchtime "Happenings" in the courtyard)
((The Union! gets my job back))
Kaprow visits my paintings,
" ... Bill, best painting I've seen out here in the west. ..."
Loved that Seminar !

I street-hear:
... my Mom plans to get something
as big or bigger than we have right now.

Thank You very much for the Visit !.
And again,
I hope that my sense of this life in the form of these pictures

turns out to be worth sharing.

!حياة. Dure! . 生命!.Maisha!.जीवन!. Liv!..Saol!
Kehidupan! زندگی! Lewe! ชีวิต! Bywydau! לייווז!
жизнь! Buhay! ζωή! Leben! Vi! .Cuộc sống!Vida! .Vita!

Got to ..K.E.E P .O N .T R U.C.K I.N' . . .