Local Muralists Restore a Fellow Artist’s Work After It Was Vandalized

Video by Mark McKenna

A little depressed?

Check out these local artists–Lucas Davis Thorton, Duane Flatmo, and Blake Reagan–working together to rescue a local mural in Eureka’s Old Town.

The trio had to hand mix paints to match the original colors on a mural by fellow muralist, Dave Van Patten, that had recently been defaced by a vandal.

Good people taking time to fix bad things. We feel better already. Hope you do, too.

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Alf
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Alf
3 years ago

Kudos! Wish they could find the scumbag who vandalized it and lock them up.

Guest
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Guest
3 years ago

Good people. Thank you.

FanOfGuest
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FanOfGuest
3 years ago
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FanOfGuest

onlooker
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onlooker
3 years ago

It would be great if Lucas Davis Thornton would complete the mural he contracted to paint at the Redwood Art Assicuation gallery. It’s getting close to a year since he started it.

Gretchen Anderson
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Gretchen Anderson
3 years ago
Reply to  onlooker

He’s starting up after the rain, plus there’s a shelter in place order. Give the guy a break he does a great job. It will be finished this summer!

onlooker
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onlooker
3 years ago

If he can paint somebody else’s mural, he can finish what he got paid to do.

Lucas Davis Thornton
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3 years ago
Reply to  onlooker

Hey there onlooker, you should know that I have not been paid in full from funds that were privately donated. I worked everyday for 4 months till the weather turned last year. The RRA is aware the mural will be finished this summer. Come on down and get more informed next week if you’d like. Or watch me paint one of the 22 full bodied portraits and accurately recreate masterpieces from art history.

MargoD
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MargoD
3 years ago
Reply to  onlooker

Onlooker. You sound like you are affiliated with Redwood Arts Association. Do you speak for them? If so, how sad that a local art association would be so negative about artists helping to combat vandalism. These are tough times for everyone and this is good news. Like all of lucas’ murals, it will be done when weather permits and will reflect his fantastic talent. Eureka is lucky to have these artist. We love them!!!!!

Jake D
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Jake D
3 years ago
Reply to  onlooker

Lucas has put his heart and soul into making “Oroville by the bay” more beautiful. It blows me away sometimes how people can find a negative angle no matter what the story is.

Guest
Guest
Guest
3 years ago

Hope it was not the same vandal scumbags destroying cities across America right now! If that’s what you think of the country please leave 10 min ago!

FanOfGuest
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FanOfGuest
3 years ago
Reply to  Guest

Lots of racism being exploited in the news lately. Don’t know if there trying to get us informed and concerned or just belligerent and angry. Seems there is quite a bit of division and not enough diversity in this country.

Guest
Guest
Guest
3 years ago
Reply to  FanOfGuest

Yeah well getting us informed and concerned ended when they started destroying, vandalizing, and looting America! No wonder these people are always having trouble w police!! Police/Military should immediately be authorized to use serious or deadly force! Violent, destructive protestors don’t belong in this country!

Guest
Guest
Guest
3 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

I absolutely feel the pain and sincerely wish for swift justice! Everybody is scared of the police. I’ve always been scared of the police myself! I would even take part the protests. However, I would not loot stores and businesses along the way. What does looting Target have to do with the message?

Alf
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Alf
3 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

I was kidnapped by racist cops in Eureka who tried to pin terrible crimes on me as a favor to another racist cop. They threatened to destroy my home. They are still cops. I almost lost everything. Did thoughts of revenge pass through my mind? Absolutely. Did I act on them? No. Did I hurt innocent people, burn my town, steal from local businesses? Again, absolutely not. It’s called living my life in a way that is right. So, no, it never crossed my mind to cause a riot. It just shows the lack of values in this Country.

Alf
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Alf
3 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

I have actually had to break up “mob” activities professionally, and no, it never occurred to me to participate.

Guest
Guest
Guest
3 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

There was a situation in Sonoma county not too long ago where a white gentleman recovered his stolen car but sheriffs didn’t get that update, ended up brutalizing and asphyxiating the guy in much the same manner. Look it up. Everybody’s afraid of police! Difference is thugs will loot, burn, and pillage carrying out the message! Attacking innocent people on the highways. Fuck these ass$@les!!!

Alf
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Alf
3 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

I get it that the family was really upset and rightly so. I even understand wanting to kill the perpetrator in an act of revenge. However, my mind is incapable of even trying to comprehend the lack of mentality it takes to hurt innocent people, destroy property of people not involved, steal property that you have no right to take, burn your own town to the ground, and stir up the whole country to do the same in their towns. This happens far too often. I for one believe all law enforcement agencies should be ready to call for immediate martial law at the first act of violence of this magnitude. There is no room for being tolerant to this kind of disorder. It is unconscionable that anyone with any kind of morals at all would even have one though of anything but detest for the actions taken. The murder is terrible and the perpetrator(s) must be held accountable. However, there is absolutely not one of the criminal responses that is ok in any sense. It is just plain shameful and unAmerican. I can’t even imagine this kind of hate.

Alf
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Alf
3 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

Not at all. He was adopted and raised by white parents. He was given everything he could have wanted. He may not have been violent himself, but his actions incited others to violence. I hope he never gets another NFL contract because he doesn’t want to play by the rules. He wants to call the shots. I avoid Nike and anything else he is involved in. He is a poster child for poor sportsmanship.

Canyon oak
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Canyon oak
3 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

Predudice will never not be a thing, and that looser cop should get the death penalty. However, the only long term solution i see, to these recurring abuses is to give rioters what they want, a society that looks like they do, because prejudice will never not be a thing, and white society will never be able to make sufficient amends to its underclasses.
Oppressed people’s can choose to forgo European inventions.
They should be able to disband structures like police forces, or rank them with skin tones that look like their own.
The trade off, is that it means some sort of legal segregation, because European people aren’t going to disband our police forces.
Judicial Separation.
Separate courts, for communities that essentially see themselves as separate communities.
If white society is as bad as is being said by new generations, then I believe it’s entirely fair to let them develop a geographic state entirely separate from the grievances they face as perceived subordinates within american society..
I disagree that todays American society is white supremacist, we have much more class mobility than other societies,
BUT, this society was definitely the brain child of European people, and that’s why there’s been white hegemony and white preference for so long.
The perceived or actual oppressed demographics will never forgive us, this we know, there is too much at stake.
If this is the stalemate, the solution is separation.
Discontented demographics can then attempt to create societies that reflect their own values and build up stories of their own valor, and assumes their people to be the standard bearers.
This endless gnashing brought on by the feeble multi-cultural project is not long for the bone yard.
The only way we, the human species achieved cultural diversity in the first place, was through centuries of geographic isolation.
Piling us all together in one society like we’ve done only demands a great inevitable sorting, and that never turns out pretty.
There are hundreds of young people in every town itching to destroy the overlords world.
People need to see unreasonable police violence for what is, the failure of multiculturalism to create a common society.

FOG
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FOG
3 years ago
Reply to  Canyon oak

Holy cow canyon oak, I couldn’t have said it better my self. Well said!

Alf
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Alf
3 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

He may have knelt quietly at the game, but he wasn’t quiet elsewhere. He was asked by the NFL not to use their game as a scene for protest, yet he refused. NFL fans were upset because of the assault on patriotism they saw it as. Any sympathy anyone may have had for his stated cause was drowned out by the fans that just wanted to come watch a game. I’m not a sports fan at all, so I have no stake in it at all. If I were paid the ridiculous amount of money by my boss that he got paid, I think I would do what I was asked. Even with his “comeback” he refused to work out at the NFL gym. He said he had to do it at a gym of his choice. He even refused to show up at an agreed upon time and date, cause he changed his mind. He is not a reasonable person in any way.

Now, if he had quit the kneeling at games as asked, but then got peaceful groups together on his own time to hold up signs in front of police stations that had proved to have issues, I would support that. He was protesting against all police in an inappropriate manner not sanctioned by the boss. There are way more good cops and way more good police agencies in this country than there are bad ones. There is no need to protest in Fortuna or Garberville or Eureka for what is seen as a bad event in Arcata. Therefore there is no need for a national protest for an incident in one town in a state far away. It’s legal to do so, but there is almost always a draw to violence by some misguided individual and you get riots. I have never attended a protest for the very reason I don’t want to participate in something so easily changed to criminal behavior. Things would be different if peaceful was actually a priority, but it is not.

Guest
Guest
Guest
3 years ago
Reply to  Alf

You can release steam or you can take the bloody kettle off the fire. The fire being the encouragement increasing steam.

Sam
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Sam
3 years ago
Reply to  Alf

Agree… then I saw the photos of him in his shoe closet; as big as my house! Kapernick (?sp) is a phony – if he has feelings about his race, why not find his biologic parents and start there – why did they put him up for adoption?

FanOfGuest
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FanOfGuest
3 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

Right on Alf! One of the biggest hypocrites out there. He got what he deserved, no one wants him to play American football! Go play soccer for Venezuela. Disgracing the values and fundamentals of a free country to promote freedom and equality is asinine behavior.

Canyon oak
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Canyon oak
3 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

The pot has definitely boiled over..
Seeing that video of the cop kneeling on a handcuffed mans neck is sickening, and tends to make one want to riot. it’s not a inappropriate response really.
I really do want African Americans to get a fair deal in this society.
I don’t know if they ever will though, and that’s why all options need to be explored.
Jello Biafra of the punk band Dead Kennedy’s has it right with his song “Riot” back in the 80s.
A short term solution to a intractable social problems

Guest
Guest
Guest
3 years ago
Reply to  Canyon oak

Too much of the world believes the ends justify the means. What really happens is the means create the ends. You can not simultaneously excuse evil behavior because of victimization and eliminate victimization. That just tries to change who is victimized, not victimization itself.

Just sayin'
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Just sayin'
3 years ago
Reply to  Canyon oak

Riot! Playing right into their hands! Tomorrow you’re homeless… Tonight it’s a blast…

Excellent social commentary by Mr. Biafra. I also love “Winnebago warrior” and “Moon over Marin.” Dead Kennedys were the shit!

FOK
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FOK
3 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

😉

Canyon oak
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Canyon oak
3 years ago
Reply to  FOK

Agreed Guest.

the song I refer to is a critique of the instinct to destroy, not a advocacy of it.

Alf
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Alf
3 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

I believe all people have the right to protest. I just don’t believe in making up national hype that ends in violence. Also, while I worked for the County, I could actively protest, actively involve myself in political rallies, etc. However, it was made very clear that I could not participate in any of the above while at work. My job would have been terminated if I had violated that rule. That’s where people have it wrong. The rights you have on your off time are not guaranteed while you are at work. The fact that Mr K is black has nothing to do with the fact that what he did was inappropriate at any work site. It was also his incredibly arrogant bad attitude. Yes, for him, this was his place of business. He was wrong. It doesn’t set well for you to call me out as anti black.

CAROL -
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CAROL -
3 years ago
Reply to  Alf

what’s sad is that more and more stores will leave these areas that have POC , causing them further problems acquiring necessities like food

Unplug Your TV
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Unplug Your TV
3 years ago
Reply to  FanOfGuest

News shows are just part of the marketing scheme. They are trying to get you to keep watching commercials. News ratings are huge during crisis. It is all about keeping you watching. Most TV shows are geared toward this. Stop watching the news all day. Stop watching TV

John King
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John King
3 years ago

You guys rock!

Joe
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Joe
3 years ago

Why would anyone bother to tag a bunch of chickenscratch that nobody can read?

Mr.A
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Mr.A
3 years ago

Thank you Kym!

Team Woodfoot
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Team Woodfoot
3 years ago

Sad and pathetic that the comment section of an article about three amazing local artists teaming up to do community service somehow gets taken over by simple minded cave droids posing as concerned citizens and patriots. Please do the community a favor and take your tirades elsewhere. We’re trying to celebrate these badass painters making Eureka better, not shit on their good will by distracting readers with your divisive violent rhetoric and misinformed self serving opinions about a subject that has absolutely nothing to do with this story.

Guest
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Guest
3 years ago
Reply to  Team Woodfoot

Enid Strict has spoken.