Caron had designed and been lead painter of the large mural

At Duboce and Church, Suzie Chang took a seat on one of the bronze chairs that is part of Primitivo Suarez-Wolfe's "Domestic Seating" art installation at the corner, and noticed another art project on the site. A utility box that's a permanent fixture on the corner had been painted to reflect what's on the mural on the back side of the Safeway, diagonally across the street. If you look at the utility box at the correct angle, its design motif exactly fits in with the 340-foot-long Duboce Bikeway Mural, a large-scale scene painted on the wall (right along the Wiggle route).

Yellow Taxies In The Center Of Manhattan Wall Mural

Chang said the box, which she called "beautiful," was identified as having been painted byMona Caron. Researching, I discovered that Caron had designed and been lead painter of the large mural reflected in the perspective of the little one. She had created that Bikeway mural, said the artist, "in the far-away year of 1998. It's the mural that started my whole mural-making adventure here." Although she has painted many murals since then, she says the new little box "is my smallest ever," and the large Bikeway work, on which a few faces of that little one are based, is still her largest.

Caron created three utility boxes for the corner, "all kind of different." The one that reflects the design of the big mural has other images - a tribute to the Wiggle bike route, for instance - on other faces. Toward the bottom of its painted surface, a trompe l'oeil vegetable garden is painted so that it appears to be growing out of the sidewalk. Its perspective "is drawn in a way that it aligns perfectly with the background if you're a child's height," said Caron. "A kid will go by and see it immediately."

All three boxes were "a really tiny part of this massive capital project by Muni," the Church and Duboce Track and Street Improvement Project, said Caron. "The most important thing is that they redid the tracks for Muni, and painted a bike lane. But there was also public art," including those bronze chairs.

This article from the:http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/garchik/article/Utility-box-art-echoes-street-side-mural-4165605.php