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/2811/2002 Archived Entry: "Ware's The Love"

I found this at the Ninth Art Delphi Forum (The url for the forum is here but to read anything you need to sign up and it's only really semi-worth doing, even for me...

'Just because it's amazing: this is the facade of Dave Eggers' community writing center for children in San Francisco, designed by Chris Ware and purporting to "depict the parallel development of humans and their efforts at and motivations for communication, spoken and written":

"It’s a very complex mural, and requires its most devoted viewers to study it for about an hour, from the middle of Valenica Street, by far the best vantage point."'

Just thought I'd post it, because I like Chris Ware a lot. In a kind of really depressed way.