Freeway Murals
Re “Enjoyable Drive Foiled by Foliage,” letter, Oct. 1: As a professional artist, I couldn’t agree more that Kent Twitchell’s murals are some of the best in Los Angeles. However, to remove a healthy tree in downtown Los Angeles, next to a busy freeway no less, would be a criminal act. If those trees were removed, as your letter writer suggests, and “the traffic comes to a complete standstill,” she still wouldn’t be able to study the mural--it would be impossible to see through the smog.
Rose Gold
Los Angeles
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Better the murals being increasingly obscured by trees than permanently scarred by the graffiti that has destroyed most of the masterful murals that dot the city.
Barry Shapiro
Los Angeles
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