David Ireland house

David bought the house in The Mission in 1975 from a man who repaired accordions.

It's on the corner of Capp and 20th.

When David moved in there was a boarder named Mr. Gordon and a church across the street.

It's unclear when David began to think of the house as an art project, but most people now believe it was the very day he moved in.

When you walk through the house now everywhere you look there's art David made, and David hasn't lived here for ten years.

There's a little metal plaque David affixed on the wall upstairs where the piano crashed into the wall when it started to fall and another on the wall downstairs where the piano finished falling.

Downstairs is dark, but upstairs is much lighter. David liked light, and naked light bulbs hang from lamps and light fixtures like they're there to honor the creation of light.

David died in 2009.

David Ireland's house is much the way he left it, and will be for some time in the future, thanks to the good people who bought the house and are committed to preserving what David made of it.

Even today, everywhere you are in David's house you're in his art. Art's everywhere--site specific art, conceptual art, language centered art. Art's the way David lived his life.