Otto Dix (1891 – 1969) - Cat in the poppy field (Katze im Mohnfeld), 1968
“…the mural is covered in a thin wash of white paint, a triangular design allowing colours from the original painting to peek through. The words “Foodlot Promotion Project” are stencilled onto the wall in black paint. Rollie Miles’s son, local musician Brett Miles, was angry when he learned Wednesday it had been defaced. “What artist who calls themselves an artist — I don’t care if it’s graphic or graffiti or whatever — what kind of artist paints over another artist’s work?” Miles, 52, said. “That’s just so disrespectful and bush league, and just so wrong.”like a friend of mine said, this foodlot douche is really just making everyone painting on the street look reckless. it’s funny how you literally whitewashed history with this act, dude. this is exactly why we can’t lump all graffiti writers together. some of them are just assholes.This was really dis-heartening for me to see this for many of the reasons people have been talking about as well as the fact I had participated in the original murals inception. The erasure of a important person of colour in Edmonton’s history, the furthering of a large portion of peoples assumptions about street art, and the destruction of the work of school children from the community is really infuriating.
