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Central California Region Interim Regional Executive Lori Wilson, left, and Ventura County Community Disaster Program Manager Candy Campbell-Urus stand in front of the multiuse emergency response vehicle (MERV) at the Sound the Alarm event at Rancho Santa Paula Mobile Home Park Clubhouse in Santa Paula, Calif., on Oct. 12, 2024.
Intrigue lead me to do some research on these murals from the WPA. And from this research I discovered a couple of things about patronage and the overall concept of works.
First: In some cases free-speech has to be suppressed at the behest of the patron.
Second: I always wondered how the program would create work and benefit so many people if it were just for the artists getting paid. But the artists themselves actually had staff and helpers who assisted with things like preparation, mixing paints, maintenance, cleanup, etc.; and these people were quite content working as a committee.
While a formal wedding is being celebrated in front of the harbor view, sunbathers and onlookers sit/lay nearby
This is the only angle from which the building seems rather large and looming: then again, we're in a residential area looking at the "back" of a commercial district. From similar perspectives, you're always going to find the least flattering views of buildings on a commercial strip...because typically, such multiuse buildings are going to be larger than residences, especially as seen from the "back" of the buildings.