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Balloon Girl (Haight-Ashbury)

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Balloon Girl (Haight-Ashbury)

YEAR

2010

MEDIUM

Spray paint / stencil

LOCATION

Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco

COUNTRY

USA

[ DESCRIPTION ]

A version of the Girl with Balloon motif installed on the walls of San Francisco's counterculture heartland.

[ CRITICAL ANALYSIS ]

Siting the Girl with Balloon in Haight-Ashbury — birthplace of the 1960s counterculture — adds layers of meaning. Is the balloon the idealism of that era, floating away? Is the child the generation born after it? The location does interpretive work the image alone cannot.

[ THEMES ]

innocence hope counterculture loss

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