UPDATE: Mission Local reported on this way back in September  — it’s like that it’s by ‘Swoon’, a Brooklyn artist, to commemorate a woman from Mexico who was killed.

Kassa, the owner of a convenience store on the southwest corner of Hampshire and 24th streets, said it was at least five months ago–but certainly after Christmas–that a young woman and man appeared at his door and asked to use his store’s eastern brick wall. “She told me she was a visiting artist from New York and she wanted to put up a piece to memorialize a girl from Mexico who was killed”….The artist showed an almost identical piece last spring at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

Behold the árbol de cráneo.

UPDATE: Here’s a shot of the woman before it was defaced:

As far as I can tell it’s cut from about six sheets of paper. No two skulls are alike.

“Dude!”  “Dude.”

Clockwise close-ups.

But art has a price.  While I was taking these, Pal’s ran out of the lamb AND chicken.  The asparagus/egg was pretty damn tasty though, and the asparagus season is just about over so it probably worked out for the best.

I rode over to Potrero del Sol and watched the Mission’s finest at work while eating my finely crafted sandwich.

Then Anthony’s Cookies on the way home. All in all, a pretty damn good lunch.

Sign of good food = I forget to take a picture of the food.  That’s was a damn fine sandwich, and I do love waffle fries.

The reason they ship the bread in is now clear to me — it obviously holds special powers in order to maintain structural integrity while under the onslaught of the powerful cheesesteak juices.

Yeht teg rieht eci dloc reeb txen keew.

Good food — here’s my tri-tip sandwich before it got devoured. I am blanking on the name of the green sauce — chiro something? And of course I can’t remember the name the vendor. Useful, eh?

Good live music, two stages at opposite ends of the fair. I was particularly taken by Blue Rabbit. I bought their new CD, Separate:

They will be doing a CD Release party at the Hotel Utah on 16 November.