Graffiti on Mural

I can’t believe it! I’ve been admiring for months the painstaking effort to clean off the paint covering the Freeway Lady mural near the interchange [on the Hollywood Freeway]. The afghan was beginning to appear and the lady’s face was almost revealed, except for the eyes.

Today, I was stunned to see a wave of silver and black graffiti across the whole bottom of the mural. The lady’s eyes just peep over the edge of this disfiguration. What can be said? What can be done? Such desecration! Such a total disregard for artist Kent Twitchell’s work and his audience.

NANCY MacCOON

Los Angeles