Muro de los Muertos, Bocadillo del Pal, Potrero del Sol
On the way to lunch at Pal’s, I noticed there’s a huge paper stencil replete with about two dozen skulls on the Hampshire wall of Tony’s Market.
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.
My friend, that is a beautiful little installment. And I think you made good on the sandwich.