(Image: CHS)
Following the focus on property damage following Seattle’s May Day protests, CHS received several reports about vandalism to the popular 135-foot mural on the light rail construction wall along 10th Ave E at John.
According to people familiar with the area, the splattering of red paint happened days prior to the Tuesday protests. Related? Who knows.
A Sound Transit representative said the agency heard about the damage last Thursday and is currently waiting for artist Zach Rochstad to be available to repair his work. The perpetrators weren’t caught and the rep says that tagging incidents have been “on the rise” lately.
The Baso Fibonacci-designed work was added to the wall in July 2010 as part of a Sound Transit art program lead by DK Pan and has become a popular Capitol Hill icon. The untitled work depicts Fibonacci in full scream amidst a psychedelic skyline of Sgt. Pepper owls. In March, Sound Transit unveiled a mural honoring park-namesake Cal Anderson on the construction wall’s southeast face.
I love that mural, and I was so happy to see it go untouched for so long. Hope the repairs get it back to its former splendor.
AUGH! I *love* that mural!
Taggers make me mad >:/
The baby man mural. Because I feel strongly that that man looks like a baby…or maybe that baby looks like a man?!!? But screamer works too. Just sharing.
I do kinda have a baby face
Unless it doesnt. Some crimes never go punished.
“baby-face baso”! love it…
I was so angry yesterday when I saw the mural had been defaced. Glad it’s going to be returned to its former glory!
I really love how the artists have responded to tagging and graffiti so far. Note the slow addition of new clouds and swirls. Still, it’s unfortunate that people can’t respect such a great addition to the neighborhood and leave it alone.
Taggers will always be around to put their ugly mark on pieces of art that are better than anything they could hope to make themselves. Despicable and pathetic.
I don’t necessarily like it, but it happens. But tagging art? That is reprehensible. Who would do such an effed up thing, because it is certainly what I expect to happen in this neighborhood. Not to art anyway