All round one side of the Silver Lake reservoir some motivational posters have appeared - signed 🖤 5th Grader - even with my long-ago paleography training, I can't decide, looking at these two examples, whether we're dealing with one author or two. Overall, and considering the temporary gallery as a whole, my impression was that more than one person was involved - the graphic styles are quite distinct. Whatever the case, they made for a cheerful intervention - to be sure, every single homily was a cliché, a twenty-first century version of uplifting words stitched onto a sampler - but they had the same endearing amateur sincerity as samplers do: a contemporary form of folk art. And no, I didn't sing - but they certainly were spirit-lifting.
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