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Berkeley, California, 2007
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12-JUN-2007

Struggle
Berkeley, California, 2007


The mural outside Amoeba Records tells the story of the struggles of the Free Speech Movement and the establishment of People's Park. I suspect this is one of the people who was using the clean-up facilities of "People's Park." Thus this image, for me, transcends time.

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Phil Douglis25-Jun-2007 02:40
I love the fact that he ignores the mural and the mural ignores him. History and individuals often march fo a different drummer. The man and the figures wall here pass each other like two ships in the night. In my own interpretation athttp://www.pbase.com/pnd1/image/80826147 the person on the street seems just as unmindful of the history around him. Yet the figures on the wall appear ready to engage the person in my image, instead of rushing away from the man on the street as they do here. And yet half of your mural and half of mine contain the same figures. It is always amazing to me how many different interpretations can stem from essentially identical concepts due to small variations such as these.