(254) Jubilee: Chez Panisse Fiftieth Anniversary:

Edition of 820 of which 125 copies are signed 1-125, 29 copies are signed A-Bb as artist’s proofs. No progressives

September 20, 2021

16-1/8” x 24"

7 Colors plus gold foil stamping

Paper: Finch Fine Cover Ultra-smooth100 pound

Client: Chez Panisse Cafe and Restaurant

1-125: Saint Hieronymus Press

A-Aa: Artist’s own use

My mother called me on my birthday in 1995 and remarked, "I have no trouble being seventy-two years old, but I cannot believe that I have a son who is fifty."

That’s exactly how I feel about the Chez Panisse jubilee. The years have slipped past like water. Every one of those fifty years was jam-packed full of life, and growth and adventure and heartbreak and joy. Every day was one of living, work, eating, sleeping. Life went on at the steady pace of one second into the future per second, same as always. But when it’s past and over, it all seems to have happened at once. I am catapulted from the exciting, chaotic opening night fifty years ago to a muted celebration marred by pandemic with nothing, it seems, in the middle