Seven-Year-Old Mission Mural Destroyed by Vandals
So someone completely destroyed the mural on 17th street between Alabama and Florida over the weekend. The mural was just over 7 years old, and was made by local artists.
While walking by today I took a quick series of the damage with my cell phone. I quickly pasted them together to give a sense of the damage. It’s pretty unreal. [...]
I think the reason this makes me so upset is twofold: 1) I know several of the artists. 2) There is a huge blank white wall just across the street. Dude(s), tag that instead of the mural.That is all.
I'll spare you the usual "good vs. bad graffiti" debate, as I'm pretty sure we have our minds made up about that. Instead, here's a couple of shots of the mural, as seen in better days:
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Dang. It's anecdotal, but it seems to me like tagging of murals is way up lately. The conventional wisdom used to be that graffiti artists would respect attractive (or at least community-oriented) murals, but that doesn't seem to be the case anymore.
graffiti "artists?"
what a joke
Fair point! Graffiti Applicators? Graffitists? Punks?
mission "neighbor?" i'll give you "old," though.
The area around Valencia-Guerrero-16th-18th has been hit several times by some schmuck with a spray can (writing emo shit like "this is my therapy" and "I just want to live") but I noticed that they haven't touched the Women's Building.
That shitbag has been on 19th too, mostly hitting people's houses and the sidewalk. Luckily, folks have been covering it up quickly. No murals are safe from the art school losers anymore. Dear Kevin, please stop encouraging these pricks with shit like "Big Dreams Bird". That's not art.
Quite apart from everything else, can anyone tell me what the graffiti says?? It makes me feel so old that I can never decipher the destruction when it appears on beautiful murals. . .
I hope san francisco dies in a car crash.
Very constructive. George Carlin hopes you die in a fire.
It's all art bro.
Wow. Sucks that the tagger scumbags had to destroy actual art. Jealousy is a bitch, I guess.
I hope they didn't damage the cool umbrella piece that is strung overhead....that would be a shame. Looking forward to the new creative rebirth of this prime art fence...the tagging is already tired and lacks general creativity, but hey, I bet it felt good at the time.
the mural artists are using this as inspiration to paint new work. they are going to restore one of the pieces, and then create all new ones for the rest of the mural.
Nice!
Sadly the "watermelon" mural is irreplaceable...the artist, Pico Sanchez, sadly past away a little over a year ago.
I've seen the first and last two on several other murals in the neighborhood - with the same minimal approach to style or artistic pretense. The middle two (JAST and SHAX?) look like they might not have gone up at the same time and are new to me.
If I remember you can see the same tags (though these aren't strictly tags) in the Clarion Alley squabble from a while ago and I think I've seen them on the murals around the torn up playground and in the alley between the parking lot and the mini-mall. They clearly have an issue with murals - though I can't fathom why.
Because they are talentless shitstains with a deep inferiority complex when faced with anything that doesn't suck as horribly as they do, probably.
That's likely right, that or a mural killed their parents?
Sadly, taggers have as much respect for their communities as those same people that walk along the street, unwrap anything they happen to have and drop their trash on the ground, rather than in the receptacle that can be found practically every ten feet or so, or the people who flick their cigarette butts on the street, or piss on buildings. Even graffitti 'artists' have the same disrepect, to some degree, unless they've somehow gained permission.
There are people who live in these neighborhoods, embracing the 'grittiness' or 'eclectic nature' of their surroundings, but those are simply euphemisms for trashed, tagged, or pissed upon.
But of course, blame gentrification for ruining these selfsame neighborhoods.
Litterbugs suck, but trying to equate that to tagging is absoludicrous.
If someone dumps their wrappings from the meal they had on my stoop, and I have to clean it up, granted, there's a different level of work required, but I still have to clean that up.
You see paper and garbage swirling all throughout the Mission left by people who generally just drop their trash, and the place looks dirty.
All of it is just another level of pollution we all have to live with day to day, and all of it is just as annoying.
Anyone happen to have any info regarding the Asshole who tags (CHERT BKF) ?? The desrepectful fucker tagged all over my termanlly ill fathers house recently ,When DAD saw it he got so worked i ended up had to take him to the E.R and having an overnight stay at hospital. IF anyone can provide me with any information that leads me to getting my hands on this little bastard please let me kno .It would b Much appreciated and any info that puts me in direct contact with CHERT will be rewarded. THANX
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