Painted utility boxes bring color to San Diego neighborhood
Yvette Roman sits next to her artwork titled “Títeres.” The painting is on a utility box outside Hilltop Liquor in the San Diego neighborhood of Sherman Heights.
(Brittany Cruz-Fejeran / San Diego Union-Tribune)
With few spaces for large murals, artists painted 12 utility boxes on high-traffic streets.
SAN DIEGO
While cleaning out her late grandfather’s garage one afternoon, artist Yvette Roman found random trinkets, mementos and toys he kept in storage over the years. One of those finds, a dusty marionette, became the inspiration behind her latest public artwork.
On the corner of Market and 25th streets in the San Diego neighborhood of Sherman Heights, Roman painted a bright pink utility box surrounded with colorful images of puppets a devil, an old man, the late Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, a woman with a face mask and skeletons.
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