| Wanting
to rid the neighborhood of a notoriously violent bar next to their community
garden, the inner city residents of Elliot Park lobbied and won to replace the business
with a low-income housing complex. |
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Enclosed in an area in-between the new
building and a badly peeling wall of an older building, financially strapped
gardeners faced a bleak landscape.
Artist Rene' Joseph saw the wall as an opportunity
to paint. |