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Bruce Hallman @hallman.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Perhaps the Billionaires and the Zillionaire want slaves?

Bruce Hallman @hallman.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

My (not) Begonia 'Pink Urchin', gifted to me by Al Palacio in Fort Worth Texas, three weeks ago, during the American Begonia Society annual meeting, is blooming pink 🩷 and pushing out new fuzzy pink leaves. #Begonias

Begonia 'Pink Urchin' beginning to flower

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Bruce Hallman @hallman.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

This 6 inch sculptural plaque, decorated with an ancient facial painting emblem called: 'Goose Head', I sculpted using gypsum cement, pine rosin, wax and hand made paints composed of ground pigments and hand refined flax seed oil.

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Bruce Hallman @hallman.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Considering the steepness of the growth curve, and the resultant risk of costly warming, perhaps we should do both?

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Bruce Hallman @hallman.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

A flag on a bicycle is wonderful. (But maybe not a MAGA flag.)

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Bruce Hallman @hallman.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Another way to think about it is that public art is communal and the pink paint tagging is collaborative. Also, art, like living, evolves and progresses, with creation, coming out, fullness, maturity, aging and demise. Art mirrors the living. Static art is lifeless.

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Bruce Hallman @hallman.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Street art, (tagged in pink), Burns Place/11th Street, near the OASIS in San Francisco's SoMa

Street art, tagged with pink, Burns Pl near the OASIS in San Francisco's SoMa

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Bruce Hallman @hallman.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Let's talk about "better time for humanity...as a species" without also considering the fact that we are in the throes of a mass extinction event while staring down the barrel of a man-made global climate change existential crisis.

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Bruce Hallman @hallman.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

No mistakes. Only happy accidents.

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Bruce Hallman @hallman.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Whatever you do, don't do this to cars illegally parked in bike lanes 👇

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Bruce Hallman @hallman.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Street art, ValenciaStreet and 20th

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Bruce Hallman @hallman.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

My #Begonia masoniana has just started to bloom. Notice the separate male and female parts of the flowers.

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Bruce Hallman @hallman.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Generalization is usually a bad idea, but... I notice that, frequently, dealers and collectors think that illegible signatures lower the resale value of their 'investment'. IMO, the optimum signature is clearly legible, easy to decipher, (using block print letters, not cursive script).

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Bruce Hallman @hallman.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Collectors prefer legible signatures

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Bruce Hallman @hallman.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Close up of the planted rain forest wall in my studio.

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Bruce Hallman @hallman.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

It's not. Increasing a person's hoard of wealth past 100% is impossible. Eventually, something must give.

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Bruce Hallman @hallman.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Hoarding their larger slice of a shrinking pie.

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Bruce Hallman @hallman.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

And they say: "Never let begonia leaves get wet."

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Bruce Hallman @hallman.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

My studio right now. Here are seven different exotic species of #begonia that, in the wild, are native clinging to cliffs near waterfalls. I've rigged up a small water pump to dribble an endless cycle of water dripping down. Illuminated by 6,000 Lux of LED lighting. Making for happy plants.

Fuller view, showing the LED light frame and the water pump sump bucket.

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Bruce Hallman @hallman.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Two views of a face I installed on an utility pole in San Francisco's Mission District

Oxidized raw metallic copper with pigmeted shellac

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Bruce Hallman @hallman.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

I sculpted this face using encaustic medium and installed it under a bike rack on Valencia Street, then came the deluge.

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Bruce Hallman @hallman.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

The blue/green pigmentation is done using in situ oxidized raw copper powder.

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Bruce Hallman @hallman.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Here's a plaque from circa 2015.

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Bruce Hallman @hallman.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Here's an encaustic wax sculpture which I made, circa 2019

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Bruce Hallman @hallman.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

A wall of my face plaques photographed under dim lighting. Eyes eyes and more eyes.

About twenty face plaques with glowing eyes,

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Bruce Hallman @hallman.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

A lot of the victims were immigrants, trafficked here from Eastern Europe by the Trump modeling agency and the Epstein modelling agency. (Including Melanie Knauss)

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Bruce Hallman @hallman.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

I made this in 2017. The sparkles are made with street glass.

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Bruce Hallman @hallman.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

And these are "patriots" 👇

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Bruce Hallman @hallman.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Hips and shoulders. The universality of life.

A 14 inch plaque which I sculpted circa 2016.

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Bruce Hallman @hallman.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Articulating mask that I sculpted in 2024

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Bruce Hallman @hallman.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

A prized possession of mine. A #KeithHaring autographed Pop Shop bag.

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Bruce Hallman @hallman.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

I'm pretty sure that DHS, ICE/CBP has access to powerful facial recognition databases which makes carrying a passport almost irrelevant. Right?

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Bruce Hallman @hallman.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

August 3rd 2025, just a week or so after his cancer diagnosis.

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Bruce Hallman @hallman.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Natasha and Bobby Weir, standing at the side of the stage, viewing Billy Strings perform the opening act just prior to Bobby's final concert performance at Golden Gate Park August 2025. 🎶❤️😢

My snapshot of Natasha and Bobby Weir, August 3rd 2025

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Bruce Hallman @hallman.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Mission District street art, San Francisco, Shotwell St. near 21st.

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Bruce Hallman @hallman.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

I'm still enthralled with the #begonia flowers of this Botanicaz hybrid 45 V.1

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