ART I Experienced As "The Sunset Experience"

Unless you've actually parked your car with the valet behind Tocaya Organics on Sunset Strip, there's a good chance you've never seen this "LOVE" mural that is so fetching but hidden even when you walk through the front door of the restaurant. There are 9 locations in total but I am all and only WEHO when it comes to directing you to find art and "LOVE" behind the front door on Sunset Strip...specifically behind this Tocaya Organics front door is all I am suggesting (my attorney says explicitly.)

Further back, I believe at the back door of the now closed, Serafina restaurant, is this wonderful photograph printed on linen, of a rope bridge, unlikely to be there for much longer.

Chase, who's done so much of the sidewalk technicolor dream walk, is also the artist who created “Dancing Eyes,” fabricated out of laser-cut wood, then painted and affixed to the fencing...this is not meant to be reminiscent of the CBS logo to imply West Hollywood is supervising Les Moonves' exit, as the CBS studio where James Corden and Bill Maher tape their series is just outside of West Hollywood, so any surveillance falls under Mayor Garcetti's job description. I'm not suggesting Chase's original title had been, Big Brother's Dancing Eyes Are Watching Your Every Move nor that the WEHO City Council insisted the name be changed otherwise "Last Dance" had been done and already is Donna Summer nostalgia, "So, thanks, Chase but never mind."

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Just west of Book Soup is a passageway that leads to the most popular destination for celebrities and other connoisseurs of the arts, Mystery Pier, a rare book emporium, and between the first staircase and the front door is a mini-tunnel passage way with a beautiful floral fresco that is so tactile, it seems to rise up off the surface as if to greet you, at least, one of the leaves does, which seems like a marketing strategy for a rare books store.

Finally, all along the strip adjacent to the William S. Hart Park and the Sunset Tower hotel are murals that tell the story of West Hollywood with images and texts by artist, Aaron Glasson...so worth a walk to soak in all those details that a drive by, like a tweet, doesn't do the same for you in terms of educational support...and don't forget those amazing turrets on the mural by Miss Brightside, aka: "The Brightside Bib" at Crescent Heights and Santa Monica Blvd. More turrets per resident in West Hollywood than ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD!