Paul Madonna posted a Xerox copy of Dolores Park on our wall
As Tacolicious II continues to get underway, we’ve been plotting out the artwork. The enclosed patio—enclosed patio! margaritas! (sorry, I can’t help my excitement about how well those two things go together)—is going to have a Dolores Park mural of sorts installed by Paul Madonna, who I like to think of as our resident artist. Paul and his wife Joen came over to the construction site the other day with some massive Xerox copies of a panoramic photo they’d taken of the park. Paul was getting some perspective for his painting. He and Joen pasted it up on the patio wall at the height that feels just right—just the right vantage point should you be sitting inside the restaurant and looking out onto the patio. Just the right vantage point should you be on the patio yourself. If you have enough tequila, you might feel as if you’re actually lying on the green grass of Dolores Park. That’s our real goal.
Elsewhere in art, our gorgeous, massive front windows are up and, in construction fashion, they’re boarded up with plywood until the big reveal. They’ve become the perfect place for street artists to do their thing. I want to keep everything that’s been posted on them. Most recently, this cool piece of the historian and activist Howard Zinn who passed away last year went up. It even got a little shout out on Mission Loc@l. I’m trying to figure out if we can preserve it when all the walls come down. But by then, I’m sure something else will be in its place. The fleeting nature of street art is really the beauty of it, isn’t it?
Even this guy has gotten into the spirit of things
The street art on our plywood-covered windows