ZZYZX (First edition, signed) Takashi Homma or the attentive gaze of

or the attentive gaze of a mother carrying her child

and sometimes they suck just as bad as the week does

Public Matters brings together photographs made by Janet Delaney in Reagan-era San Francisco

In his photographs

capturing their fall into the provisional

ZZYZX (First edition, signed) Takashi Homma or the attentive gaze ofThe early settlers dubbed California The Golden State, and The Land of Milk and Honey. Today there are the obvious ironies sprawl, spaghetti junctions and skid rowbut the place is not so easily distilled or visualised, either as a clichd paradise or as its demise. Theres a strange kind of harmony when its all seen togetherthe sublime, the psychedelic, the self destructive. Like all places, its unpredictable and contradictory, but to greater extremes.