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America's Finest Mural
Yes, hello, artist here. You think my explanation of my work is a stretch? Again, column inches... The piece has layers of meaning including aging/inadequate infrastructure being ignored while the city focused on courting an ever increasing influx of tourism, efforts to turn the city into a giant theme park, catering solely to the interests of tourists while city services failed to meet the needs of residents, pricing artists out of the downtown loft spaces they had renovated so developers could turn them into $500k condos, etc. How much time do you have? San Diego did host the GOP convention in 1996 and covered up my mural that spanned a corner at Fifth and Broadway because it contained famous quotations on the subject of peace and planners feared that art about peace might offend Republican sensibilities. Has San Diego grown up, or is it still sucking up? At the optimistic age of 25 I was hoping that growth would beget cultural/civic maturity.— December 13, 2012 3:19 p.m.