The sheer volume of detail in a garden changes almost moment by moment and this provides an intense visual meditation, the camera capturing only a fraction of a second in nature's infinite flow. When I am immersed in photographing the beauty of the botanical world, I not only feel great exhileration but have realized it is also a necessity for me: my soul's spiritual survival is fully rooted in nature, where a deep serenity overrides social judgements, fear, and perceived human flaws. Nature is abundant and joyful, reminding

me that I am also that.

TECHNICAL I photograph using a Contax RX 35mm camera with Fuji PRO160 print film, natural lighting (fog is a wonderful light filter) and no tripod. My images are printed straight from the negative without cropping, the way I see them through the viewfinder. They aren't altered digitally in any way. The scans used on this web site are lovingly 'hand' scanned from my own negatives by yours truly.

CURRENT EVENTS   "Photo Florilegium" is still up at Brioche Bakery, 210 Columbus Ave, SF, until January 22nd, 2009.

• Website will be undergoing a change. It will be a little more streamlined and easier for me to update and add new images as I create them, something I haven't been able to do here. • I want to keep using film because I love the detail in the focus AND the way it loses the detail when out of focus. It also allows me to print very large without pixelation, an amazing expansion from such a small negative (I printed 40"x60" from a high quality oil-coated drum scan and the details are phenominal). Therefore, my search for a new photo printer has been educational. There are no small businesses offering optical/chemical prints that I have been able to find (the old way), now digital/chemical is the norm. I have actually found a place that prints my images less like cartoons and more like the photos of growing things that they are, but many digital printers I've tried tend to push the colors way beyond reality.

CURRENT RESUME   Please view my resume here.

FUTURE EVENTS  The San Francisco Botanical Garden has chosen me as one of three artists to exhibit my work at the horticulture library at Strybing Arboretum, September thru December 2010. This will be my second show for the Garden. • I am scheduled for my next St Francis Memorial Hospital show sometime in late 2010.

ART HISTORY "Green", a photographic window installation, hung at 1427 Grant Ave in San Francisco, Oct 15 - Nov 15, courtesy of Jim & Marti Schein at Schein & Schein Antique Maps & Prints right next door. I was in attendance the weekend of the North Beach ArtWalk, Oct 24th & 25th, 2009.

Canessa Gallery was all mine from July 6th thru 31st, 2009, 708 Montgomery St, San Francisco. Thank you, Zach.

May 1st through July 3rd, 2009 my work was hanging in the St. Francis Foundation's Shenson Memorial Gallery at St. Francis Memorial Hospital at 900 Hyde Street in San Francisco. The sales of my photographs included a donation to the

St Francis Foundation.

Integrated : spiritual survival at Collectively Grasp Environmental Art Gallery, 850 Greenwich Street, SF. Aileen Meehan and I curated the photos for a beautiful and interesting combination of images. I had an especially skilled friend mount the prints (thank you, JK!) and they were hung unframed for close-up viewing. The large giclée prints looked amazing. They are 40"x 60" blown up from a TINY 35mm negative scanned by Urban Digital Color's great technicians. I showed just one at my Open Studio last fall, but this show had four! December 11 - February 14, 2009

Twenty of my photos hung at Artemis Healing Center, an intimate acupuncture and massage center in Los Altos, CA, from December 5th, 2008, until early March 2009. Thank you, Tatyanna.

Loren Simpelo graciously lent me his display window to showcase my photography for my Open Studio at Simple Design with the red door, 1254 Mason Street, San Francisco (between Washington & Jackson across from the Cable Car Museum), October 25th & 26th, 2008. October's Open Studios had a new group of artists linked by the North Beach Art Walk, with all art, poetry and musical endeavors mapped by the Telegraph Hill Dwellers Arts & Culture Committee. The pairing of local business owners and artists was to foment even more artistic activity in the neighborhood. It was the best time I'd had in a long time with Kim Frohsin's Sidewalk Sale going on next door and Candace Loheed at New Orangeland keeping me happy with the Proseco!

"Serenity III " was up until October 21st at UCSF Center for Reproductive Health at 2356 Sutter Street, SF. Matt McKinley of McKinley Art Solutions curated the show. My work was displayed on the 3rd floor in the 'J' hallway with more art on 7. The building itself has a beautiful California-style interior garden and the entrance hall is lined with tactile and colorful tiles imprinted with live botanicals and inscribed with poetry or thoughts on loved ones who have been ill. I enjoyed these as much as the art show upstairs.

"Spines", with nine out of twelve images never exhibited before, was hanging at the Chameleon Café on Russian Hill for two months, August through October, 2008. The laptop crowd regularly faced away from the art, but the beautiful spiny images behind them looked just great on the gray wall, like a French café. Thank you, Melody, for the opportunity.

I participated in Vesuvio's Special Edition of Art in the Alley for their 60th Anniversary on Sunday, October 5th, 2008. The weekend was full of musical and poetical events, and the day I was there had many local North Beach artists sharing space with a variety of musicians and audience.

Sunday, September 21st, found me at the Fort Mason Community Garden's Garden Gala. I showed and sold my matted photos of the garden, and donated to the silent auction. The food was great, especially the champagne, in such an incredible setting, the garden lush and beautiful this time of year! I spent an afternoon last week shooting dahlias and roses and lavender there, plus my usual close-ups of the unusual parts of plants that most people never notice.

My friend, Dana, graciously donated a space surrounded by garden for an Open Studio in October 2007 here in North Beach. I enjoyed the visits by friends and a few new faces, including someone living next door who said, "I take pictures similar to these." I smiled, thinking what he really meant was a once-a-year vacation photo shoot at the park with the family surrounded by flowers, but when I was formally introduced to Sid Hollister at his solo show at Canessa Gallery a month later, I saw that he really DID take pictures similar to mine! It forged an instant connection.

My solo show at The Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture at the San Francisco Botanical Garden in July, August and September 2006, was wonderful and I enjoyed everyone I worked with there through the entire process. I truly felt like a talented artist with the lovely responses I received from everyone who viewed the show!  JaycoxSFBGpage

My botanical photos were first exhibited at Vesuvio's on Columbus Avenue in June 2005 (thank you, Conrado), and I have shown a variety of photographic images in venues around the U.S. and Europe, including group shows at The San Francisco Women's Art Gallery, MASS MoCA, and Light Impressions Corporation gallery in Rochester, NY.

HISTORY I was born here in California, and moved back in 1997 where camellias, magnolias and iris bloom in the wintertime, and where my photography and I have thrived. I grow my own cacti and succulents on my roof because of their beauty and because of their skill at surviving my occasional neglect.

 

You sure get a lot of mileage out of leaves, Julie. ~Patty Callahan, 2008 Open Studio, San Francisco