Bay Area Mural Mona Caron's Term Paper

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"The type of future I'm showing is one that makes use of structures that are there, subverting their function and turning them into something else. People were asking me, 'Are you gonna do flying saucers, hovercrafts?' But I was really intent about not making a future that's just about technology. it's not off-the-wall; it's about technology repurposed in a way that everybody participates in." (Zwickel 2004) This future is directly related to the way she presents community activists, close, realistic, and not glorified. "I do wish for a radical change in society, but I don't envision it happening in a 'revolution.' "... This society could be gradually supplanted by a different one, redundant of the one that exists, being built at the same time. Everyone will do whatever they have to do to survive, but at the same time they could put energy towards building relationships based on different logic. That's what I'm showing in the future section of the mural.
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Mona Caron brings a multicultural flare to the streets of San Francisco. Caron's own diverse background -- raised in another country, her exposure to theatre and culture throughout Europe, and finally finding her place in one of the multicultural hotspots of America -- is expressed in a personal but universal way in the Market Street Railway Mural she completed in 2004. Much more than a splash of pretty colors, this mural is a true artistic achievement, a historical documentation, and a dream weaver of sorts, planting hope for the present and future into a work of beauty that can be enjoyed on many levels. "Slyly political, aesthetically appealing, and clearly humanist...'I'm trying to lure people in, people that would not otherwise go out of their way and pay attention to political art. I'm sweetening the pill.' (Zwickel 2004)

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