HASSO HERING

A perspective from Oregon’s mid-Willamette Valley

Fifteen years on, the zombie still flies

Written July 1st, 2024 by Hasso Hering

Someone must have looked up from the street on First Avenue and didn’t like what they saw. Which may explain the email I got last week.


Could anything at all prevent graffiti?

Written June 30th, 2023 by Hasso Hering

Painting a whimsical mural on a wall in Albany evidently does not protect it from the spray paint brigade, those knuckleheads who leave their ugly scrawls wherever they can.


Finished mural: Casting light in the dark

Written November 29th, 2022 by Hasso Hering

Now that Eileen Hinckle has finished her new mural in Albany, it’s time to take another look at the completed work.


At skatepark, mural now covers a concrete wall

Written June 1st, 2021 by Hasso Hering

A reader asked if I had seen the mural at the Albany Skatepark. I had not, but a bike ride last Friday took me past there. And now I have.


 
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