Urban art at its worst.

Walk south along that chicest of San Francisco’s streets, Fillmore, and turn west on McAllister and you are suddenly in an area which feels like a concentration camp. Lined with housing estates for the poor, each comes with a healthy ration of locked gates, barbed wire and surveillance cameras.

Then, just when you though things could get no worse as you approach City Hall, something like this confronts you:

Lefty. G1, 35mm, f/5/5, 1/400, ISO 100

An appropriate tribute to one of the greatest government crimes of our times. Public schooling. This mural suggests that this chap finally cracked and set about himself with a heavy object, doing the students justice. Can’t say I blame him. Just imagine turning up to school only to be confronted with this daily ….