Monday, November 16, 2009

Mosiac Man's work painted over on St. Mark's Place





On the northeast corner at Third Avenue. Did this happen recently? For some reason I never noticed before.

4 comments:

gabriel said...

At least it's still sort of beautiful this way -- as if Mosaic Man had arranged giant slabs of rock on the surface of the moon. Someone should make a rubbing of the mosaic...

Anonymous said...

Is that ConEd's handiwork? The city?

Why?

Should we call 311 to complain and/or lobby for an EV exemption to whatever rule requires silver paint on the base of streetlights for Mosaic Man?

I year or so ago, a bunch of his mosaics, mostly around the park and down 7th St., IIRC, were painted over with metallic paint. He rescued some of them but, I think, a few were goners.

EV Grieve said...

I'm not sure, anon — ConEd and the city are likely equally guilty. The paint does look pretty fresh...

Eden Bee said...

I notice the tiles of mosaic are falling off the pole by the pee phone i think too..