Just the begining for Sherman Ave!!!!!

This is definitely one of the better-executed murals around town. Very eye-catching!

LOVE it!

It’d be interesting to talk to the artists about the tagging issue. We all know this will get tagged at some point, I’d say sooner rather than later. The tag will be one of those scrawly scripts of someone’s name that only they can recognize and that take all of five seconds to do. How do the artists prepare themselves for this inevitable destruction? Or, do you have some tricks up their sleeves like coating the whole thing in butter or something? Or, perhaps its like a sand mandala to them, and not meant for permanence?

Artist credits?

Pennywise: In California in the Sixties, Chicano street mural artists added the symbol c/s to their work, which stood for “con safos,” “with respect.” The good news: this meant no one wrote over the murals, symbols of community solidarity and pride. The bad news: the implicit “or else” threatened retaliatory gang violence, and that seems to be what deterred potential vandals.