{"id":4527,"date":"2017-11-13T14:48:34","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T20:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/?p=4527"},"modified":"2017-11-13T14:48:34","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T20:48:34","slug":"the-quest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/the-quest\/","title":{"rendered":"The Quest"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The quest started as a simple idea. I didn’t even know if I would, or even could finish it. \u00a0After all, it was a commitment for a year. \u00a0<\/p>\n

I didn’t know if any of it would turn out any good, or just a bunch of bad paintings for the scrap heap. \u00a0I didn’t know if anything would be interesting or worth looking at. \u00a0<\/p>\n

I didn’t know I would eventually paint ghost towns in Silicon Valley, or haunted springs, or wild beaver sign in a metropolitan city, or the worlds largest homeless camp, or the world’s first ‘plein air selfie’. \u00a0<\/p>\n

I didn’t know eventually strangers would walk up to me, give me a hug, and say I brought back their fond childhood memories. \u00a0<\/p>\n

I also didn’t know it would snowball in scope and public interest way beyond my first simple idea.<\/p>\n

Four years ago today, I started the year-long quest to paint a different “Creek and River of Silicon Valley” each week en plein air, or on location.<\/p>\n

At the time, even finishing the year successfully was not known, but I ended up with 60 paintings of 43 different creeks all over the South San Francisco Bay area. \u00a0Little did I know it would grow with articles written by international art publications, multiple showings in various venues, and a book. \u00a0Discover about the quest, including a short documentary video, interactive map, and other information here–<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.donaldneff.com\/creeks.html<\/a><\/p>\n

The collection of 60 paintings is still intact and will be for the foreseeable future. \u00a0I am still seeking venues both local and nationally for showings, so if any of you have ideas for venues, please let me know!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The quest started as a simple idea. I didn’t even know if I would, or even could finish it. \u00a0After all, it was a commitment for a year. \u00a0 I didn’t know if any of it would turn out any good, or just a bunch of bad paintings for the scrap heap. \u00a0I didn’t know […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,21,4,2,12],"tags":[295,32,24,27],"class_list":["post-4527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-creeks-and-rivers-of-silicon-valley","category-landscape","category-plein-air","category-publications","tag-creeks-and-rivers-of-silicon-valley","tag-santa-clara-valley","tag-silicon-valley","tag-streams"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gXkU-1b1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}