Street art

About a month ago on our previous site, we wrote about a mysterious work of street art on the corner of Ashby and Telegraph. A reader figured out it was by artist Jesse Hazelip. Now Hazelip writes in to explain:

The project is about American historical lessons that we have ignored as a society. We pushed the buffalo to the brink of extinction, and with WWII we saw a glimpse of what our end might look like, combining the two I hoped to make an interesting image that would encourage dialogue about such mistakes.

Lance Knobel (Berkeleyside co-founder) has been a journalist for nearly 40 years. Much of his career was in business journalism. He was editor-in-chief of both Management Today, the leading business magazine...