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Mural Painting
at 5th
Street & Girard Avenue, Philadelphia:
Paint Blossoms in a
Concrete Jungle
©1995
Falconer/Gunasegaram.
COMMISSIONED BY: Dennis L. Gilbert, D.D.S., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA 12¼' x 7½' spray paint and acrylic on concrete and plaster This work originally stretched from the corner of 5th Street (measuring a length of 24½') when it was completed in October 1995 in a predominantly Puerto Rican neighborhood in Philadelphia. However one Saturday night in 1998, a drunk driver crashed into the corner of it at 5th Street causing major structural damage to the wall. The structural damage has since been repaired but the mural has never been repainted to its original size. The brown shingles had been painted a copper colour to cover up the gang tags that used to be a permanent fixture on them. This previously gleaming copper colour has disappeared after several harsh winters. |