Andrea@1995Wharton School of Business at The University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia's Pennsylvania, USA 1995 (in calendar year nineteen ninety-five)
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Mural Painting
at 5th Street & Girard Avenue,
Philadelphia:
_Paint Blossoms in a Concrete Jungle_ ©1995 (nineteen ninety-five)
Falconer/Gunasegaram.
COMMISSIONED BY: Dennis L. Gilbert, D.D.S. who left us on November 7th, 2007 (two-thousand and seven): http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/dennis-gilbert-obituary?pid=1000000097601059&view=guestbook Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Song SUNG Blue IN LOVING MEMORY OF DENNIS ON NOVEMBER 3rd, 2019 (twenty-nineteen) PLEASE NOTE: UNABLE TO POST AUDIO RECORDINGS ON LEGACY.COM: _Evergreen for Dennis Gilbert_ Sung to the tune of _Evergreen_ by Barbra Streisand c. by Barbra Streisand and Paul Williams 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 (nineteen ninety-five) in a predominantly "dirt poor"-Puerto Rican (Hello? PBS television journalist? Charlie Rose???????????????????????????: Puerto Ricans ARE USA citizens whose USA social security numbers have been PLUNDERED FOR GENERATIONS BY THE UNDOCUMENTED IN THE USA AND THEIR $UPPORTER$!_ neighborhood/neighourhood in Philadelphia. However one Saturday night in 1998 (in calendar year nineteen ninety-eight), a drunk driver(s) _UNKNOWN_ _EITHER_ TO DR. SAKU GUNASEGARAM AND/OR TO DENNIS GILBERT DDS: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/dennis-gilbert-obituary?pid=1000000097601059&view=guestbook crashed his/her/their 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 disappeared after several harsh winters. |