The current piece:
Caron’s work:
Let’s hope she is able to do something new here, and that her amazing piece that was there has been somehow salvaged.
[both photos via Mona Caron's Facebook page]
UPDATE: Uptown Almanac noticed that Hugh D’Andrade found the original work held captive in a Muni yard, it’s future uncertain.
Ugh. Only a utility company would have the balls to be this crass.
Why!?
I love the new look!
Since when is Church and Duboce in The Mission? You might consider rebranding.
Nah, we’ve never restricted ourselves to specific city boundaries. This is right in line with the kind of topics we’ve always covered.
The Mission is a state of mind, brah.
love you mission mission
Contact SFAC for answers! http://www.sfartscommission.org/contact/
I have heard from the artist. She is just as surprised as everyone else. No warning, no questions — nothing. Just a photo sent to her of a grey box where here mural once stood.
I’m pretty mad about this.
I just heard back from SFAC. They did not commission the piece and don’t know anything about it. The box was commissioned by MTA and DTNA, so this must be their doing.
Thanks for the updates, Hugh.
Let’s get Mona’s work back!! She has done beautiful work in the nabe. Vive Mona Caron!
yep one of the best muralists in the world. But me thinks you alan and your little nabob apolitical liberal friends don’t give two shits about her class warfare and anarchist leanings.
that’s ok.
lets just consume and take pictures. No content required. CALL THE COPS
through if her ‘ilk’ actually do some occupy shit again….
> don’t give two shits about her class warfare and anarchist leanings
Confirmed. Why should I give a fuck? Paint ain’t gonna smash the state.
kudos on the Spiro Agnew “nattering nabob” callback, bro! But, wow, you really sound like a dick.
I was about to engage in a discussion with you about my history of political activism, but then I glanced at your comment history and saw that you just come here to blindly shit on whatever you see and realized it wasn’t worth the effort.
THANKS OBAMA!
It was a totally fucking beautiful mural, but it wasn’t painted over… the utility box was replaced with a new one altogether.
(Meaning, yes, that I hope it was salvaged)
Sounds like MUNI never talked to the telecom (who owns the box. I suspect that this was just Utility company bureaucracy, not something intentional.
Someone shows up to do a job, replace a box with a new one… Whaddaya gonna do?
This article misses the point. Part of what makes street art special is its evanescence. See it while you can, because tomorrow it might be gone.
Well, sure, but the artist is pretty upset about it, so I guess she misses the point as well.
My mistake, she wasn’t upset, she was more philosophical about the whole thing. I got the upset part from all the other people reacting on FB.
She should show her art in galleries then.
except that street art is boring, and nobody wants it, and it should go cry in the corner.
She should get used to the fact that it is the nature of street art that it is ephemeral.
She could just take it as an opportunity to do another piece. Quit your crying.
Wow, impressive spam all of a sudden. This bit is straight up poetry:
“May just you please prolong them a bit from subsequent time?”
The controller box was replaced after the completion of the Church & Duboce Rail Replacement project, as part of a system-wide upgrade of various electrical sectionalized switches and associated controller boxes. The urgency of replacing the switches was made apparent after the nine day shutdown at Church and Duboce, when one of the switches failed shortly after it was re-energized. To upgrade the switch at Church & Duboce, the associated painted box also had to be replaced. We are working to have the box re-painted by the artist. We anticipate this process will be complete within the next 3 months.
Paul Rose
SFMTA
When I was a kid I remember walking past when she was painting her mural on Church and 15th. It’s amazing to still see so much of her work around the city now, as well as a shame that SFMTA just ripped it out without any regard to how much work the artist put into painting it.
No, it would have been much better to leave a box with a failed switch that could have shut down the Muni Metro in order to save some street art.
Wow that was unusual. I just wrote an incredibly long comment but after
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