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MURALS DURING A PANDEMIC
A Visual Tour of a San Francisco Neighborhood
​by  Pat Koren

​One of the disorienting things about the times we are living in is that many things are the same, and at the same time so much has totally changed. I can walk down the residential streets in my neighborhood and everything looks the same as it was before COVID. But I go a block and turn a corner, and I see boarded up stores; a street that buzzed with activity is now muted. At the same time, I am grateful for all the artists that have enlivened the dreary streetscape of endless plywood facades with their colorful murals.

Fight COVID with Brownies - Valencia Street. 

Flying Child - Valencia Street. 

Someone Left a Heart - Valencia Street.

Puerto Alehgre - Valencia Street. 

Painted Palm - Dolores Street. 
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Patricia Koren has been absorbed in the visual arts for the past 40 years. After receiving an MFA in photography, she became a graphic designer and worked for several different magazines, then founded Kajun Design, where she still works part time. The last several years she has reconnected to her earlier passion for photography. Three of her photo series may be viewed at camerawalks.com.
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