Are Socially-Conscience Mesa ArtSpace Lofts Artists Just Plain Blind To Homelessness Here?

If they need a friendly nudge to produce "inter-active' art here's one from Banks that just happened to appear on a public art installation in Birmingham, England.
The reaction caught the world's attention to highlight the issue of homelessness in Britain.
Here in Mesa, most of us just walk by a homeless person on a bench in downtown's public spaces. . . Be merry?
Or do something?



Published on Dec 10, 2019

A mural by Banksy has been covered with a perspex sheet after the artwork appears to have been vandalised. The mural depicts two reindeer pulling a bench as if it were a sleigh, but now the reindeers sport two bright, red noses. The painting, which aims to highlight the issue of homelessness in Britain, appeared on the wall in Birmingham over the weekend.
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22 December 2018

Homelessness: Just 'A Point In Time' or Lasting Solutions?

Now really, dear readers, how bogus can a count of The Homeless get when it's done once a year (at night)* by a group of volunteers and - at least here in Mesa putting the Police Department to tackle the problem smacks of Criminalizing the Homelessness. . .

At one point-in-time in a public meeting, District 1 Mesa City Councilmember Mark Freeman, ensconced comfortably in his own family compound-enclave, reacted to seeing the homeless on public transit as 'the awfulness'.
> In one of the first reactions to the extension of lightrail service into downtown Mesa, city officials wanted a police bike patrol first of all.

Just recently your MesaZona blogger was told by one person attending a meeting of the Downtown Merchants Association about this year's Merry Main Street festivities that they wanted a bench removed from where the homeless were highly visible right directly across the street from The Mesa Christmas Market Place.

Sure enough it was gone the next day! 
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* Posts on this blog: There are more than a few - see 1, 2 and 3 below

14 November 2018Ending Veteran Endlessness? NO > The Actual Numbers of Homeless Vets Across The Valley Has INCREASED in The Last 5 Years

Published on Dec 10, 2019

A mural by Banksy has been covered with a perspex sheet after the artwork appears to have been vandalised. The mural depicts two reindeer pulling a bench as if it were a sleigh, but now the reindeers sport two bright, red noses. The painting, which aims to highlight the issue of homelessness in Britain, appeared on the wall in Birmingham over the weekend.
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