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"Street Almanac" 1993 San Francisco Talks with Different Voices 72"x48" each page Mixed Media Construction Review: Roberta Friedman, "Busing It On the 19 Polk". Bay Area Reporters 8/26/1993 ...Meanwhile in Civic Center Plaza, Sinem Banna's installation, Street Almanac 199, is attracting attention in front of the Main Library. A four-page galvanized steel book, six feet high, it is subtitled "San Francisco Talks With Different Voices". Four large marking pens hang on chains, an encouragement for passers-by to leave their messages. Already the steel pages are covered. One epigrammatic has written, "The working class and the employing class have nothing in common except being on different ends of the same whip". Another quotes Sartre, "in choosing myself, I choose man". Of course, not all of the public's contributions are nearly so eloquent, but Street Almanac 1993 clearly shows the range and depth of public expression which now seeks its only outlet in graffiti and posturing. I was greatly pleased by the work, drawn as I am to books as totem objects. It's a perfect piece of public sculpture for the lawn in front of the Public Library.
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