San Diego’s Surfing Guadalupe To Be Torn Down

She appeared, she saw, and now she’s being conquered. The lovely “Surfing Madonna” mural in Encinitas, California that appeared around Easter is set for removal after the city council decided to set aside $2,000 to remove, and hopefully move, the mural.

If you recall, no one is sure who all created and installed the art project, which is surely very intricate and cost at least $1,000 in materials alone. Yet, the city of Encinitas, near San Diego where the mural appeared, is set to remove the mural because it’s classified as “graffiti.”

Columnist Logan Jenkins wrote:

The Encinitas council wanted to come off as both Solomonic and cool when it voted to spend $2,000 to move the Surfing Madonna to the wall of a local business.

The council wiped out on both adjectives…

Though he said he likes the art — in beachy Encinitas, that’s like saying you love Swami’s — Councilman Jerome Stocks scolded the outlaw artist(s). He/she/(them) put the city “between a rock and a hard place,” he grumbled.

Efforts to save the beautiful glass mural have apparently failed, let’s hope the professional removal does not, and this wonderful work of art can be successfully relocated.

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