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Showing posts with label graffiti. Show all posts
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January 16, 2013
"Let a Thousand Parks Bloom" mural & Edythe Boone
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Yesterday, I finally met the woman responsible for the mural. She is Edythe Boone, a lovely woman of 74 years who devotes her life to working as a counselor, a health activist and has taught art at several local schools in addition to the many mural projects she has designed and worked on; and there have been many of them.
For decades I've gone to my favorite place to buy records, Amoeba Music on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley, California. For the last decade or so I've seen and admired a mural in a huge vacant lot (owned by the Regents of the University of Berkeley) across the street from Amoeba on the corner of Haste and Telegraph just down the street from People's Park, the site of the famous 60's protests. I list Haste Street first because the mural is best viewed from there.
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"Let a Thousand Parks Bloom" mural
photo by Styrous®
Yesterday, I finally met the woman responsible for the mural. She is Edythe Boone, a lovely woman of 74 years who devotes her life to working as a counselor, a health activist and has taught art at several local schools in addition to the many mural projects she has designed and worked on; and there have been many of them.
photo by Styrous®
The mural, "Let a Thousand Parks Bloom" was designed by Edythe Boone, Patricia Tripp and Eli Jo Dougherty in 1998. It was sponsored by the Chaplaincy to the Homeless and painted by
homeless volunteers. The mural depicts the stories of the
neighborhood's homeless population. And if you've ever walked down
Telegraph, you'll see the homeless in abundance.
She is responsible for the famous "Maestraepeace" mural on the Women’s Building on 18th Street between Valencia and Guerrero in the Mission neighborhood of San Francisco, California. She also does what she calls, “guerilla murals”, murals that cover up drug-related graffiti.
In 2010, Boone was honored by the City Council who proclaimed July 13th “Edy Boone Day” in Berkeley.
In 2010, Boone was honored by the City Council who proclaimed July 13th “Edy Boone Day” in Berkeley.
Boone is the subject of a documentary, "A New Color", by Berkeley filmmaker Marlene "Mo" Morris who raised funds for the movie on Kickstarter.
But let my photos of the mural show her work.
photo by Styrous®
photo by Styrous®
photo by Styrous®
photo by Styrous®
a protest sign in front of the mural
photo by Styrous®
Boone is constantly in need of money to fund her mural projects, which she pays for herself (the volunteer in one of the above photos told me the glaze used to finish the murals costs $85 a gallon), and volunteers to work on the murals. If you are interested in helping and want more information, she can be contacted at:
Edythe Boone Support Fund
c/o Juana Alicia
2016 Ninth Street
Berkeley, CA 94710
Styrous® ~ January 16, 2013
Edythe Boone Support Fund
c/o Juana Alicia
2016 Ninth Street
Berkeley, CA 94710
Thanks for the inspiring work, Edy.
Styrous® ~ January 16, 2013
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January 1, 2013
El Graffiti del Raval
photo by Styrous®
Some graffiti was painted on the steel security barriers of shops. When the barriers were rolled up during the day, the graffiti was hidden (I thought that extremely clever).
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photo by Styrous®
some shops have even used graffiti as advertising
I shot as much of the graffiti as I could find but, unfortunately, not as much as I should have. A couple of years before the Olympic Games that Barcelona
hosted in 1992, the government of Barcelona cracked down on graffiti
and a lot of the good work started to disappear. Add to that, Barcelona
levied a fine of €600 for graffiti in 2010. Not many grafiteros wanted
to pay the price and the quality of graffiti fell due to having to do
the job in a rush which resulted in a lot of sloppy work. The photos
here are ones I've found in the Raval.
All photos by Styrous®
and of course, rappers are reped
El graffiti en el barrio del Raval de Barcelona es maravilloso!
El Barri Gòtic, one of three of the oldest quarters of Barcelona, had some incredible work as well. Those images in a future blog entry.
Disfrute!
Styrous® ~ January 1, 2013, 1:50 AM
Disfrute!
Styrous® ~ January 1, 2013, 1:50 AM
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