52The Squiggle on the Rogue Building
Painter not on record · horizontal bands of peach, blue-grey and cream with one thin looping line that runs the whole block and across the roll-up door · the Rogue building on Webster Ave, home to Silos Ink Collective · know who designed it, or when? Tell us.MURAL
A cinderblock building on Webster painted in stripes of peach and blue-grey, with one thin cream line looping the whole length of it like a doodle that never lifted the pen.
This one is easy to walk past, because it does not look like a mural. It looks like a building that got a very good paint job. A long cinderblock block on Webster Avenue, across the street and a little down from the tortilla factory, painted in wide horizontal bands of peach, pale blue-grey and cream, with blocks of the same colors staggered like a wall built from three kinds of brick. Then you notice the line. A single thin cream line starts at one end, loops, doubles back, draws a couple of lazy hills, and keeps going — across the cinderblock, across a light-blue roll-up door, around the far corner and onto a dark grey-blue section at the end, where it finally quits. Big white arcs, like the edges of circles too large to fit on the wall, sit in the corners.
The front wears a scalloped Spanish parapet with ROGUE lettered on it and a big R emblem with radio waves coming off it, and a sign for Silos Ink Collective, the tattoo and piercing shop inside. Rogue Media and Rogue Capital are named as business partners on the Reaching Beyond plaque two doors down at Triple Win, which is the closest thing to a clue we have. Who designed the stripes and drew the line, and when, we do not know. If you do, tell us.
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