Comments on Currently Hanging

Ahh, I was wondering why people were fitting harnesses outside of Value Village yesterday.

You want to keep all that weathered paint advertising long dead businesses? Why?

NKO is one of the most thoughtful artists currently working on the streets of Seattle, I'm hoping he completely obliterates that faded and useless signage and replaces it with something new and beautiful.

No, I don't want to keep it intact. I just like art better when it takes into account the history of the place where it's at. Context. That sort of thing.

@3 Me too.

I agree with preserving context when it's meaningful, but the importance of a decades-old service station ad eludes me. What's the history you want to preserve? It's not like it's a stop on the underground railroad - it's just a place people used to get their oil changed. To me it doesn't seem like anything worth preserving.

I'm not being facetious, just trying to understand how you're defining "history." I had the same problem with the folks fighting to save the Ballard Denny's. It's a concept of history that makes little sense to me.

Are those the Original Monique lofts?

@5: I hear you, but how do you determine what's meaningful or not? An ad for a long-gone service station may not interest you, but maybe it has to do with changes in the neighborhood. Or the circumstances that gave these artists permission on this wall while forbidding them from plenty of other walls in the city. I don't know the history of this particular wall, or even this particular block, even though I work here. It's just that when artists aren't working on a tabula rasa white sheet of paper, I want to hear their perspective on which histories they're emphasizing and which they're leaving out. I'll make a point of asking these guys, as soon as I can get off deadline!

@Jube: They aren't but I think that I should get one since they are using MY name.

Also, I totally would live there because:

1) They are really cool
2) It's just science. I should live there.

Anyone want to help for a 'bring Monique to Monique' fund?

no, we're not covering the ghost signage.

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