Patrice Vecchione, Walkabout town: Art in the face of what happens

Patrice Vecchione, Walkabout town: Art in the face of what happens

Sometimes the impossible happens. Or the thing we thought was impossible, the thing that since we first experienced belief we believed would never occur; there was no place for the barest idea of it. One such impossibility is the tornado that touched down in Scotts Valley last December—an actual tornado, not somebody going on about very big winds. A tornado in Santa Cruz? Cars were lifted off the streets, turned upside down, trees were lifted up…