A native of the San Francisco Bay area, Mr. Frank was born and raised in El Cerrito. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1973 with a major in Landscape Architecture and has worked in the landscape profession for 25 years. For the past 20 years, he has been a Landscape Architect for the City of San Mateo, California.

Thoughts:

My mask design is a facial image that I saw about four years ago on the wall of the Immaculate Conception Church of San Francisco. The image was formed by the shadow cast by the small leaves of a Drake Elm tree by a streetlight. It seemed to be someone praying. At that time, there were several unusual occurrences at this church, such as a glowing image of the Virgin Mary on the church's copper roof and an image of Jesus on the steeple. Many people saw different things. I feel blessed to have seen this praying image. The Hospice Mask Project has given me the opportunity to express and share this experience.