Coming Upon a Treasure
Walking farther down Kearny, I craned my neck continually in all directions like a weird bird, looking for clues of anything fresh and worthy of my camera. On these "self-assignments", the city is not the San Francisco in the books, postcards, or websites you've seen. It's the here-and-now of my eye, heart, and mind in an environment (which mystics say is Self in another form) that is unknown, awaiting discovery. What can I catch that will never appear anywhere, again? That's the goal!
Well, I was looking down Chinatown streets I passed, exotic, I suppose, but all in the same way. And suddenly, around the corner of rather non-descript Pacific Avenue (top left, below), I came on the magnificent Chinese-style mural below! It was done in 1998 by Watson Low, Josie Abra, and Grant, whose last name is blocked on my photo by a railing, under the logo "Up Against The Wall" Murals. I can't find any info about it. If anyone can tell me either about the mural or about the mythology depicted, I'd be grateful. The building is a kind of Chinese or colonial-style residence hall. Its gate was locked.
