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...phrase “EVERYONE IS PRICELESS,” in all-capitalized letters, graces the murals on Bow Street behind Tommy??s House of Pizza and Tommy??s Value. The pastel yellow background and the spontaneous strokes of paint that border the brick wall add a note of whimsy to the sweeping proclamation. The big block font looks like someone took a giant rubber stamp and, while passing by the industrial-sized trashcans one day, decided to label the walls behind them with a self-esteem booster...
...passersby on Bow Street, the murals have become as much a part of the urban landscape as the Tommy??s stores. But they are unfinished—the train emanating from the giant washing machine in one of the panels is empty. The white tiles in another panel are left blank...
...murals are the Art Squatters’ first community art project, and they have already encouraged bonding with its across-the-wall neighbors, the Tommy??s stores. Gogel describes the mutually beneficial relationship in organic terms...
...have a symbiosis with Tommy??s. We got money from the Undergraduate Council to buy food from there, and the people from Tommy??s Value lent us their basement to store our paint,” says Gogel. “We get along really, really well...
However, this year Art Squatters will not be able to use the same space to store paints due to fire hazard concerns. “The landlord [of Tommy??s Value], Janet, decided that we shouldn’t keep any more paints where we had stored them last year due to fire hazards,” Gogel says