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Issue One muralist strikes again
Mona Caron's latest wall-covering artwork again features cyclists...
San Francisco's wonderful Duboce Bikeway Mural which we featured in Velo Vision Issue 1 and, in part, on its cover, has now been followed by another stunning creation in the same city, also by artist Mona Caron.
The 12' x 38' Market Street Railway Mural will be unveiled at a ceremony this weekend - this Saturday, 2PM, if you're in the area. As with the Duboce work which we featured, a key element in the making of the mural was community involvement. Many of the figures represented are 'real-life' people from the streets. Among them of course, cyclists!
According to this article by Joel Pomerantz:
"The sixth stripe includes miniature portraits of bicyclists who Caron met through her work on the Duboce mural. The Grant Building (at 7th and Market) is the backdrop. It contains the offices of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition and Shaping San Francisco, a local history project on which Caron relied for source material."
There are links to several more articles about the artwork at the Market Street Railway Mural website.
Posted on 13 July 2004
Your comments ...| From: Steven Brandist (stevenbrandist@yahoo...) on 15 July 2004 |
Just had a look at the photos at the Market Street Railway Mural link.
What a wonderfully detailed creation, I love the way the artist has taken the city scene and sliced it into different time and social zones, including a vision of the future. A print of the work can be purchased online.
I'm a bit bemused at the grand unveiling though, I can't quite work out what the transvestite nuns are doing. Are they a singing group? |
| From: steve green ([email protected]) on 15 July 2004 |
Steven; remember that the mural is in San Francisco...
What is San Francisco famous for?
(as well as The Grateful Dead)
There was, or is, a gang of transvestites using the name The Little Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. They dressed as nuns. Unfortunately, I know no more than that. (an MP who used to live in California told me about them. Honest) |
| From: steven brandist (stevenbrandist@yahoo...) on 16 July 2004 |
Hmmm, I get your drift.
Some of them do look like they've been Perpetually Indulging, so maybe you're right.
I actually ordered a print from Mona Caron, so impressed I was with what I saw (the Mural not the Nuns). Should be with me in the next 7 days. |
| From: Seamus (etc) on 16 July 2004 |
The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence is a 21st Century Order of gay nuns and, whilst women are not entirely excluded from the order, they are predominantly men.
They first appearred in San Francisco on Easter weekend, 1979.
They have a habit of "Ruining it for Everyone" with their habitual injection of gaiety into serious affairs including human rights, political activism and religious intolerance.
The Sisters consider it their mission to "ruin" all detrimental conditions including complacency, guilt, and the inability to laugh at one's self.
Occasionally seen on roller skates, don't know about bicycles
website at: www.thesisters.org/ |
| From: Steven Brandist (stevenbrandist@yahoo...) on 16 July 2004 |
Seamus, you are indeed an oracle. The Nuns seem to have a great time at the Mural unveiling anyway. Rather dissapointingly to join the Sisters I'd have to:
1. Move to San Francisco
2. Spend 2 months as an Aspirant, 4-6 months as a Postulant, then a further 6 months as a Novice (or White veil) before being elevated into 'Black Veil' status at the 1 year mark.
Hmmm, perhaps the sisters could consider opening a UK chapter. Any takers? |
| From: Steven Brandist (stevenbrandist@yahoo...) on 16 July 2004 |
It appears that I don't have to bother with setting up a UK chapter.
http://www.thesisters.demon.co.uk/ |
| From: Seamus (etc) on 16 July 2004 |
You're taking far too much of an interest in that particular topic, Steve.
I think you should stop now before before you get led astray.
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| From: steve green (steve@readstoomuch) on 16 July 2004 |
| They turn up in Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City. Well worth reading, intlligent and witty stories. That Mona Caron's good, too. I haven't had a good look yet, but her watercolour studies on the first page of her website are excellent. |
| From: andy sacaife (monacaronfan) on 16 July 2004 |
| isn't Mona's work fab! I loved the original mural, and went to SF to see it (and join in the CritMass of course), after ted White showed his film at the 2000 try-out show, then Peter issued the first VV not long after. I loathe the US of A, but loved what I sampled of America and the San Fransiscans. I wish we could import a big shipload of whatever they're on! |
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