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Susan and Xian Yeagan left San Francisco for good in 1999, leaving The City to fend for itself. Now they live in retirement in an obscure county, watching the birds, growing their food, taking care of the land and making art. They have way too many cats. | |||||||||
| Susan worked for the UCSF teaching hospital as a senior analyst and programmer, all the while making art at home in her live-work loft in a former industrial building. She studied clown arts and taught yoga. After twenty-five years, when the neighborhood went from empty abandoned industrial to crowded dot-com stylish, she knew it was time to leave. They found their obscure county by accident. A map in Gem Trails of Northern California led them there. It was as different from S.F. as they could have imagined.
Susan paints in oils and pastels, and does a number of crafts, including fiber arts, gourd work, jewelry and flower arrangement. She approaches them all with the same degree of creativity. |
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Christian, or Xian as he signs his checks and artwork, was raised in Greenwich Village in an artistic family. He took way too many classes in painting at an early age, and now mainly likes to make sculpture. He has made sculpture in many media, including soft and hard stone, including gemstones; wood; found objects; mechanical movements; precious and base metals; architecture; and glass. He also makes digital images for fun, and paints in acrylics and pastels occasionally. In San Diego / La Jolla where he lived for thirty years, Xian created a number of interiors for homes and businesses, treating all of them as a large, encompassing sculpture. The photograph is of the staircase connecting the Unicorn Theater and the Mithras Bookstore, that he both designed and built (with a crew of fine workers helping.) |
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