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The Botanical Mural by Mona CaronThe Botanical Mural by Mona Caron

The Botanical Mural

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  • The Making & Unveiling

This mural features greatly magnified botanical illustrations of locally occurring tiny wild plants, both native species and weeds, at different stages of growth and decay. Some of the plants featured were found growing in the cracks of the sidewalk directly in front of the wall.

The Botanical mural was the first in which my ubiquitous magnified small wild plants took the foreground alone, and it is the mural that spawned my street art and photography project “Weeds”, which shares its theme and intention. 

By nurturing the perception of beauty within subject matter that is often unseen, or perceived as lacking in value, use, legitimacy, dignity, even a right to exist, this painting attempts to question the selective attention we pay to things, depending on some acquired notion of value, or depending on whether something is placed on a pedestal or found in a gutter. 

Inspiration for The Botanical Mural by Mona Caron
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Location

Church St and 22d St
San Francisco , CA
United States
See map: Google Maps
California US
Size:
 292 x 4 to 17 feet; 
2,750 sq. feet
(89m x 1 to 5.2m; 256 m2)
 
Funded by:
SF Community Challenge Grant Program
San Francisco Beautiful. 
 
Fiscal Sponsor: counterPULSE
 
Design & painting: Mona Caron
 
Assistants: Lisa Ruth Elliott, Paige Tuhey.
 
Volunteers:  Maria Teresa Caparrotta, Alana De Riggi, Mary Brown, Ali Tonak, Brian Awehali, Maite Hierra.
 
Special thanks: Theresa Mahler Child Development Center and San Francisco Unified School District; David Hochschild,  Alec Bash, Adrián Arias, Rupa Marya, Joel Pomerantz.

This mural was commended in a Certificate of Honor of the County of San Francisco.

(c) Mona Caron All Rights Reserved

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