Are you feeling proud for any reason today? Maybe you're a Chicago Cubs fan and like all sports fans, you're feeling especially proud for an accomplishment you had absolutely nothing to do with. Hey, as the world's laziest man, I think that's great! Because I've got a couple of proud birds for you today; the bird that says "pride," the peacock.
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| Artist SJ, Hyperion Peacock, paint on building. |
I've been wanting to share this one for a long time and have been waiting for a day when the cars were not there, but it has never happened. The peacock is long gone. This last summer it was painted over to stump for Bernie Sanders, and now there's something else. But this was located off Hyperion between Fountain Junction and Tracy.
Peacocks are a common subject for muralists. I think it's obvious why. Lots of color, brashness, high contrast, lightning-quick recognizability. Did you know peacock feathers are really brown? And the guy birds only grow them for mating season, then they molt off (getting longer each year).
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| Artist Punch, Hollywood Peacock, paint on building. |
Here's another proud fella on Hollywood Blvd., right at the freeway on-ramp. There are several colonies of feral peacocks in Southern California. If a local artist wanted to do some life sketching, she or he need go no farther than Palos Verdes or the Arboretum. You can too. I think I've seen them at the L.A. Zoo too. You cannot view this mural in person except behind a chain-link fence. Thank goodness for camera phones that have tiny lenses that can pushed through gate openings to get unobstructed views.
I knew of another peacock mural on Olympic and I went hunting for it this last Sunday, but alas, the building it grace had been demolished. Sic transit gloria mundi.
Here are alternate views for you:
Have a wonderful Thursday, all of you!
Love,
Pops
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