FOR SALE – FRAMED $100

24 x 36″ w/a 1 x 4″ Wood Frame

This is a mounted giclee on canvas that I painted with mixed media. It’s from photos I took of David and Falls Park.

David was a gift of Thomas Fawick to the city of SF in 1971. But Fawick Park use to be a gaslight refinery in 1881. Remember a few years back when the EPA dug up the park and cleaned up the mess? And the local politicians didn’t know where to put David (it was about the pee-pee again).

or should it be called, tax write-off?

Just another place to add to the cultural suckiness of our town. They should have put Firehouse Coffee in there, so I would have an even better reason not to go in there.

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I think this one is too hard to understand. I was trying to be all ‘retro’ but I think I F’d up. I should have used a walleye, blah, blah, blah.

PHOTO COURTESY OF KELO NEWS

So I guess some bonehead is spray-painting the cheeseburger slinger on the sides of buildings. Don’t get ME wrong, I enjoy guerilla art, as long as it is done w/o vandalizing property (I had one of my paintings vandalized a few years back). There is many forms; decorating sculptures and photographing them, building removable sculptures and placing them in public parks, etc. But actually spray painting property that’s not yours, dumb. Especially if it the art isn’t compelling, that just makes it vandalism, not an art crime.

Normally I wouldn’t write about this crap because I’m not a little punk rock kid anymore, but since two local news sources have called me, almost interrogating me about the artwork, I had to speak out. I want to clarify something; I’m a 34 year old political artist that likes to take credit for my work, if I tagged a building, my signature would have been on it.

Secondly, I’m not blaming the city for these incidents, BUT if there was more public space for local artists to do this kind of work (like there is in bigger cities) you would see a lot less of this – illegally. But as we all know, SF Art Police must control all images in our city. It’s sad really.

Who do I think did it? Not sure. Maybe I will hang out at Black Sheep coffee on the deck and listen in on punk rock kids conversations – yeah right. I’m not a vandal, but I’m not a narc either.