I applaud the Kitsilano 4th Avenue B.I.A.'s support of a "Letters for Santa" box, stationed a block west of Burrard. Although attracted to the box's colour scheme and lack of look-at-me sponsorship, I am disappointed to see that, once captured, this red on brown, blood-in-the-stools combo lacks contrast, making it difficult to read, maybe even anti-photography.
Could that be deliberate? An inadvertent critique of a street whose legendary Nova Gallery (1978-82) three blocks west gave us the first Jeff Wall lightbox (Destroyed Room, 1978) and ushered in a quarter century of post-conceptual photographic dominance?
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