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\nThe AjA Project collected photos from City Heights residents and baked them onto tiles for a large-scale mosaic at 43rd Street and University Avenue. | Photos Courtesy of The AjA Project<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

By Tom Fudge<\/span>
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It\u2019s an artwork impressive in scope: A tile mosaic of 1,000 photographs of the City Heights neighborhood that were taken over 10 years, documenting the dynamic cultural life of the neighborhood. It\u2019s 14 feet high and 44 feet long.<\/p>\n

Last week, The AjA Project<\/a> mounted this piece of inner-city art, funded by Price Charities, on the wall of an apartment building near the corner of 43rd and University Avenue. The photographs were taken by City Heights high-school and middle-school kids, who are part of an education program run by the non-profit group.<\/p>\n

The AjA Project has done several public art projects, including a temporary wall covered with images that surrounded the San Diego Museum of Art last year. But the group\u2019s artistic coordinator said this was meant to be different.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you make something permanent, it\u2019s a proposal for the future,\u201d said Shinpei Takeda. \u201cWhen you look back on this, in 2020 or 2030, it will tell people what this place was like today.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nA photographic mosaic of life in City Heights faces a fenced-off vacant lot, since money to built a park at the site has been long in coming. | Photo Credit: Tom Fudge, KPBS<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The mosaic faces an empty lot. I had to squeeze through a chain-link fence to enter the city-owned lot to get a good look at it. Its colors radiate from black and white in the center to blue along the perimeter. Get up close and you see the photos. There are the faces of the children of refugees, many of them in Muslim dress. You see photos of the public gardens, shops and street corners that animate the neighborhood. The photos were baked onto individual tiles before being mounted on the wall.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted it to look at little bit chaotic, since that\u2019s what City Heights is like,\u201d added Takeda.<\/p>\n

Price Charities donated $35,000 to build the mosaic. Now, the only thing missing from the tableau is the \u201cpocket\u201d park the art is supposed to be a part of.<\/p>\n

The AjA Project mosaic was meant to look down on a small park, serving the neighborhood. The park has been designed and approved, but shortage of money and the loss of redevelopment funds have prevented it from opening on schedule.<\/p>\n

City Heights is known for having a shortage of park space<\/a>. But the San Diego Mayor’s office said the City Heights pocket park has been put out to bid, which means funding is lined up and construction should begin soon.<\/p>\n

Until they do build the park, people wandering along 43rd Street will see a vacant lot, and a work of art that would be easier to see if it weren\u2019t for that chain-link fence.<\/p>\n

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