7.31.2025
Bobby MaGee Lopez's piece is still missing from the tunnel mural. You don't remember what I'm talking about so here's the original post:
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This happened last summer and no one of authority bothered to let him know. That fell to me when I was asking about the panel in question. Anyway the space is still empty. I went to the Brutalist city government building to check out the original paintings. Sorry for the hasty photos but there was some kind of informal bureaucratic conference happening in the lobby where they hang and I felt like a loiterer. Anyway here's a sample. If Bobby has any more insight to offer I'll share it here for sure.
Otherwise TC is great for art if you're into landscapes and photos of lighthouses. I had a neighbor with a studio on the ground floor of his house who would get cranked on gin all day and paint still lifes of the bottles. There was this one piece at the local thrift store where they have all this random crap in consignment booths. It was painted by a guy with no hands, a local legend, apparently. I didn't buy it. I did pay way too much to frame a county road map to my local framer, who was on the Downtown Development Authority and told me he'd been on committees with no budget that accomplished more than they ever did. I didn't ask if he was pro-traffic or anti-traffic because it's not really a question you need to ask around here. I also had a map of Michigan counties, the state flag, and a good old fashioned road map on my walls, along with the iconic territorial map from the 1700s you see around, from when they hadn't figured out how to navigate around the Lower Peninsula and just imagined it was sliced off at a straight line across the northwestern tip. Also a topographical map which is hilarious because of how flat it is around here. Except the Porcupines, someone is saying. Yes yes except for the Porkies.
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