Sunday, January 10, 2016

Monday Mural: Fields of Dreams

It took me a while to grok this image and then it came to me.  It's an aerial view of the eastern estuary! The circle in the upper right corner is the A's ballpark minus the Oracle arena next door.  The upper left represents the island city of Alameda.  The peninsula in the lower portion is the airport.  All the bright yellow lines represent the freeway, bridges, and main streets in the area.  The blue water is the estuary which runs in from the Bay.  The mural, done this year by Alan Leon, is formally named Fields of Dreams: the fabric of the city.  His work graces the freeway support piers in the Temescal District and was featured here.

Welcome to Monday Mural: if you like murals or have a mural you'd like to post, this meme's for you.  Just follow the Linky steps below.  You decide what constitutes a mural.  Once you start looking, you find them everywhere.  Be sure to link back to this blog and visit your fellow posters. Looking forward your mural finds posted this week.  Google+ users, please configure your post so we all can leave a comment.

"Be kind; everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”  Rev. John Watson

18 comments:

  1. Good, it took me awhile also.

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  2. If you build it, they will come?

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  3. Thought that was a film with Kevin Costner. Great mural

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  4. Thanks for the info ODP, it all becomes clear now :) Super find.

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  5. What a great map!
    I had no idea what it was until you explained, but now it's so obvious!

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  6. I am glad you explained the image, couldn't see what is was. Now I can see the overview.

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  7. I'm glad you explained what the mural depicts because now I can appreciate it!

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  8. Very nice map mural. I like it.

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  9. To me the mural is both distinctive and understandable. Great colours to catch the eye!

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  10. I like it. He needs to put a "You are here" X on it. Maybe "here" is off the wall.

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  11. At first I thought a whale gobbling something up and then I thought wait, that's a map! Cool!

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  12. Very cool! I had a hard time getting your site to come in today and then the linky wouldn't come in either. Glad I finally got through!

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  14. An interesting mural. Very different from the usual.. I like the naive look of it.

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