More art on the plywood covering broken windows

[mnhtnbb]

A box of chalks sits outside the door of the boarded up restaurant for people to use across the street from my building in downtown Raleigh



The entrance to the boarded up restaurant across the street from my building









Yesterday, artists at work creating a statement on one of the boarded up windows of the lobby in my apartment building.



The finished work



And the view from my balcony of the restaurant across the street




Anybody have some art they'd like to share? Please post it!

[CentralMass]

1. I wonder how comforting that is to the owner of the boarded up restaurant.

[mnhtnbb]

2. In his words...

Full of life and love

By the time Jeff Seizer got to his Raleigh restaurant Royale on Sunday morning, people he didn’t know were already putting up plywood where the windows used to be.

“I was feeling really hopeless,” Seizer said. “But this morning, it’s a day full of life and love. ... If Royale needed to get smashed up and downtown Raleigh needed to get smashed up for a larger cause, so be it.”

At Royale, Seizer expects to serve food this week. The kitchen was untouched and the dining room hadn’t reopened, so in one sense, not much had changed.

“We’re in the middle of a pandemic, and we’ve already reopened once,” Seizer said. “We’ll reopen again. There’s nothing to do but keep going. You just go and find out how resilient you are. ... It’s a testament to humans. To go through something like a global pandemic, and now riots and to still get in the streets and help out one another. I’m awestruck.”

Seizer is organizing a plan in downtown Raleigh to turn all the fresh plywood into murals.

“I can’t sit by and let this darkness take over,” Seizer said. “If you’re an artist sitting at home, come paint a mural. Post a picture of your grandmother you haven’t seen in two months. Post George Floyd. Post Martin Luther King Jr. Let’s fill our town with something special.”

Read more here: https://www.newsobserver.com/living/food-drink/article243165551.html#storylink=cpy

[CentralMass]

3. Thanks. I should have read it better.

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[crickets]

4. Now that is resilient spirit. Never underestimate the power of hope. nt