02 Dec San Francisco: Interlude – Rooftops

I stood on the rooftop in Van Ness pictured below just over a week ago. It was a night of many things, including the loss of my phone, one of the best shows I’ve ever seen and a few moments of drunken reflection on my life and the people in it. And once I complete at least one of my final projects for the next few weeks I’ll go into more detail of all of that in the supposed ‘Part 3’ of my time here through blog posts…

Throughout my time here I’ve seen San Francisco and the surrounding Bay area from various different levels of height. I’ve stood in the hills above Berkley, seen various views from by my house and watched over parts of Fisherman’s Wharf from my hotel window my first week in the city. This was a view I hadn’t seen before, firstly it was at night, or rather early in the morning, around the 2am mark, and it was silent and beautiful.
I envy the man who lives in this building and gets to sit at the firepit or on the tables along the edge whenever he pleases. I don’t envy him as a person, as his life is one of the saddest and fictional I’ve ever seen, but I envy this overview of the city and the reflection of one’s own importance or reduction of mundane problems when getting to view the world from this angle for a minute or two…

Georgia Tomlinson-Spence
(@georgiarts)