Wednesday, March 5, 2025

QUICC as you can

Since the days back in the last century when my sister drove a Datsun 510 station wagon that was basically held together by political stickers, I've been fascinated with people who use their car’s exterior surface as a thought canvas. So when I saw this new vehicle in the ‘hood, I naturally paused to peruse. I mean:

Taking it by quadrant, we have:


And more granularly:






(This one references Woody Guthrie’s guitar.)

Lest anyone have doubts about the overall theme, there’s the vanity plate:

And from branding on the side panels of the van, I believe that it’s associated with this group, which provides street medics to the queer communities in the East Bay of San Francisco as well as in Brooklyn.

I totally respect their courage in going behind enemy lines into a Confederate state.

 

©2025 Bas Bleu

 

 

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