Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Revitalizing #SanFran #Mission District #Twitter X #Quora X #Kickstarter @SacredMural #Klout

The SF Mart building has been empty for years. It's huge and it makes an entire block feel empty. It's between 10th and 9th on Market. Ed Lee and the Supervisors are trying to get Twitter to move into the building instead of moving out of the city. This is in hopes that other companies will also move into the neighborhood.



This mural is not simply art, but a sacred device to connect the numerous groups of native people with the divine. Icons depicted, images of a heart pierced by a sword and a heart pierced by three daggers, may represent the sorrowful mother Mary and her son Jesus, designed suitably for this mission which lay on the banks of the stream, "Our Lady of Sorrows Creek", once located at Albion and Camp Street. The mural could be considered a visual prayer that embodies the key messages and tenets of the doctrine of Catholicism. It's a montage of both the native California Indian religion and the religion brought to them by the friars. The native California people brought their own world view to beautify the church.



A twenty by five foot section of the original art will be faithfully recreated as a permanent mural and piece of public art for all to see. Using over 250 photographs that were captured in 2004 by lowering a camera on a rope-and-pulley system behind the altar, the top section of the mural will be reproduced with the same colors, abstract decorative patterns and designs that exist in the original. It will include a rendering of the niche, or recessed cove, abstract decorative designs and two hearts, encircled by golden bands. Jet Martinez, a co-organizer of the Clarion Alley Mural project, had had the wall in mind for his own Oaxacan-inspired mural design. He helped propose the idea of the mural to Mission Community Market organizer Jeremy Shaw. Meanwhile Megan Wilson, advocated for recent "Laser Ca" muralists Bonnie Reiss and Ezra Li Eismont as perfect artists for the project.Jeremy Shaw obtained permission from the property owner and the project has now been made possible.



Bartlett Street recently a venue for a new, weekly outdoor community market of fresh foods and community activities is located between 21st and 22nd street. The location of the mural at the site of a community market is a direct way of sharing the unknown mural with the diverse population frequenting Mission Market each week. It will be a long-term attraction for artists, historians, tourists, and community members alike.



The Dolores mural will be accompanied by a contemporary mural designed by Jet Martinezto sympathetically integrated within the building's façade, as well, acting as a guardian of the sacred mural. Decorative motifs found throughout the old mission will also be used to unify to two murals. A descriptive legend will retell the story.

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At the corner of Bartlett and 22nd Street, next door to Revolution Café

and just one block from Artists Television Access, a mural is being
planned for the Mission Market exterior wall.

This spring three local muralists will start painting a mural that has
not been seen in this area since the 1790's when Franciscan Friars, at
the newly built Mission Dolores, had the mural painted by native
peoples.
Two young men, one an artist, the other an archaeologist, crawled over the ancient redwood beams of San Francisco, CA Dolores earlier this month, opened a trap door, lowered an electric light into a space behind the main altar -- and stared into the 18th century. There, in a space thick with the dust of centuries and dark as a tomb, is a wall of nearly forgotten religious murals, painted in red, black and yellow by Native Americans in 1791 and hidden from public view for 208 years.


Bartlett Street recently a venue for a new, weekly outdoor community
market of fresh foods and community activities is located between 21st and 22nd street. The location of the mural at the site of a community market is a direct way of sharing the unknown mural with the diverse population frequenting Mission Market each week. It will be a long-term attraction for artists, historians, tourists, and community members alike.
The Dolores mural will be accompanied by a contemporary mural designed by Jet Martinezto sympathetically integrated within the building's façade, as well, acting as a guardian of the sacred mural. Decorative motifs found throughout the old mission will also be used to unify to two murals. A descriptive legend will retell the story.

People involved expect this first mural to only 'open the door' for other mural projects, led by Ben Wood (et al) to be launched in The Mission (San Francisco neighborhood) District, and are just about to - this week - launch the Kickstarter Crowdfunding campaign to raise the minimal project costs needed.
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