San Diego’s East Village used to be a place of prostitution, transients, drug dealing, and gang activity in the 1980’s and 1990’s. The unpainted electrical and utility boxes served as the marking points used to conduct illegal transactions and were the reference points of criminal activity. The painted electrical and
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Sometimes the shadow space where art and crime overlap is not money, not fame, but a vision. At least this is what Mark Patterson contends. His crime of installing the Surfing Madonna- a glass mosaic- under a train overpass in Encinitas was not motivated by senility or the search for