A Favorite Mural

West Santa Clara Street Mural

I keep coming back to this one on West Santa Clara Street. This is just a part of it pictured above. I enjoy creating interpretations for the symbols. I enjoy seeing the historic San Jose light tower, the Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton, the Box on Mt. Umunhum, the house that looks right at home in San Jose… and then making the story of how these familiar landmarks ended up in a surreal version of the landscape that is in places anachronistic. I like to make up a story each time for the scenes in each part of the mural as I re-see them, and all versions leave me peacefully satisfied as I stare at this work and take it in.

West Santa Clara St. Mural

San Jose Mural

I could stare at this downtown San Jose mural every day. I am enamored with this. I adore it. Created by San Jose artist Lacey Bryant.

San Jose Mural
San Jose Mural
San Jose Mural
San Jose Mural

I love the art of it, the movies my mind creates inspired by it, the fantasy, the San Jose references within the work, the flow of emotions and thoughts I come to when staring at it.

San Jose Buildings

Here are a few buildings that I was admiring on a walk.

San Jose Buildings
Bank of Italy Building, which became Bank of America.
San Jose Buildings
Top of the Bank of Italy building.
San Jose Buildings
San Jose Buildings
San Jose Buildings
Historic 1904 building preserved until repair and development of building and surrounding land.
San Jose Buildings
San Jose Buildings
Close up of KQED building, location of the world’s first radio station.
San Jose
The Great Seal, and also the spot of the annual ice skating rink in downtown.
San Jose Buildings
Family Court House.
San Jose Buildings
San Jose Buildings
Once the main post office, now the San Jose Museum of Art.