Why do you choose to live in San Francisco, a beautiful, fickle and ever-entrancing city?  What is the price of entry into this temperate wonderland?  Where does reality end and imagination begin?

La Vida Povera de San Pancho consists of a swarm of melted and made over Playskool plastic doll houses that have been altered to reflect the ghost stories, histories and legends of San Francisco. Utilizing tiny TV monitors, sound chips, image, text, and toys this piece will take viewers down Melancholy Alley, through Sound and Fury Avenue and up Sexolicious Lane in a tour of the memories, hopes and dreams of a city that is constantly in transition.

Each house engages you in its own way.  Hi-tech points of entry include video and TV images, sound chips and computer loops.

Low-fi access includes push-buttons, switches, levers, flip books, drawing pads and other ways to play with the structure and meaning of the buildings.

Ultimately the tiny structures become a dreamscape of the imagined and the perceived, the world of hopes and fears that draw you to San Francisco.