In 2008 the Obama campaign in Houston was based out of a small building just at the south edge of downtown. When the election was over and the campaign moved out, the murals on the side of the building, a “Yes we Can” sign and a copy of the famous/infamous Shepherd Fairey poster, were left as public art.
Last February, person(s) unknown threw paint on the mural.
Tonight, a local artist, Reginald Adams of MOCAH, spent a few hours repairing the mural. It’s crazy enough that he went to START working on the thing at something like 9 or 10 pm; it’s crazier still that I went down there at 1 AM to shoot pictures of it.
And yet, there we were.