Soldiers and Suits Follow-up

My earlier post, on the increasingly present soldier and suit motif, prompted three unsolicited reactions:

• My lovely and talented wife liked it, but wished the post had a more pronounced critical perspective.
  
• An old friend from high school wrote from Cincinatti to say that she found the mural particularly interesting, and that she wished there were more of that sort of thing near her.
• As I mentioned in my last post, another friend responded by requesting more photos of shrubs.

Three unsolicited comments is something of a highwater mark for feedback around here, and for this and other reasons the soldiers and suits have stayed on my mind. Imagine my surprise then, as I walked by the Grand Lake Theatre today and ran into life-sized cutouts of the soldier and suit figures from that mural.


The cut outs were place there by Matt Reynoso, the artist responsible for the mural, who indicated that he'd been placing the soldiers in local cafes, including Arizmendi in Emeryville.

Matt's looking for sympathetic walls to place more murals on. If you have any leads send them his way.