Underpass Tunnel Murals

One of the two tunnels that go under Wilshire (the one closer to Park View Street) connecting the two halves of MacArthur Park, is covered in 10 graffiti-​style murals promoting education, music, Christianity, clean and sober living, and achieving dreams.
Some of the murals are a bit horrific, showing a woman seemingly poisoning her child with drugs and skeletal people chained by poverty.
The murals are all vibrant, and most of the people who go through the tunnel tend to ignore the art. When Brandon D. and I walked through and started taking pictures, it was then that others stopped to look. A couple of men remarked that they never really paid attention to the art on the walls before.
Since this is a tunnel, the murals can be hard to see, even during the day when bright light floods the passage. The paint that was used is somewhat shiny, so it further makes it difficult to see from certain angles. However, looking down the tunnel from the lake side before sunset is glorious as all the colors pop from that angle.
Graffiti art has this stigma attached, and really it’s a vivid and versatile form. Glad to see someone’s putting it toward positive messages.