Jar-O-Ghosts and Giraffe Pi(e) - San Diego, CA
Posted by: LeoGeo
N 32° 54.771 W 117° 08.720
11S E 486410 N 3641634
Two sides of this utility box show two very different scenes.
Waymark Code: WMBJBV
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 05/25/2011
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The street-facing side of this box shows a boy opening a jar, like the Pandora of Greek mythology, from which many ghosts escape and fly about. The adjacent eastern side, by contrast, shows a giraffe and a toucan in a sunny landscape, with an unexplained Greek letter "pi" (perhaps for "Pandora"?) in the upper left corner.
The artistic styles seem so different that I wonder whether they were painted by different people, or by one stylistically flexible artist.
The ghost-jar side seems to be signed "Theresa [something]", but if the paint after the first name is supposed to be a surname it is illegible. There is no signature on the giraffe side.
The painting of utility boxes in this neighborhood is sponsored by the Mira Mesa Town Council (a volunteer/business organization) and has been spearheaded by the Mira Mesa High School art department. See (
visit link) for more information.
There are photos of about 30 of the other Mira Mesa utility boxes, some with info about the artists, at (
visit link) .