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Commission of one painting by artist Chris Johanson for the exhibition Fertile Ground: Art and Community in California. Painted on five pieces of found board, the piece (a) shows a neighborhood of apartment buildings at the left beneath thick blue impasto clouds. At the right is a man in front of a cactus. Between the two scenes is a dollar sign and a burst of multicolor lines. Arbitrary text is scattered about the apartment buildings, with phrases like "the time makes you who you are" and words like "bison". Text to the left of the man on the right reads "Humming Bird Drones / And Invasive Eyeglasses". Beneath the starburst is "you heard it before". A small panel (b) orbiting the "Where Are We Going Now?" shows figures in yoga poses in front of an Earth Day poster. This smaller panel is titled "Earth Day Yoga People Empowered By Self Invention and Myopic Security(On Their Own Planet) Orbiting The Vague Idea of Co-Existence". ARTIST BIRTH: 1968