The Obama Wall on U Street

There's an upscale restaurant on the corner of U Street across the street from the Marion Barry Center that has a European, yet bohemian feel about it. We are told that this is a Belgian restaurant fused with southern cooking. What stops you in your tracks is the outside wall that is blanketed with some dramatic posters of Barack and Michelle Obama. Art is subjective and you have to allow yourself to see the world through some someone else's. eyes. I believe this would be a bigger tourist attraction if more people knew where to find it.

The first piece that captures your attention is the huge Obama "PROGRESS" portrait in bold black, red and blue colors. Next to it is the highly-debated, yet thought provoking, portrait of Abraham Lincoln and Barack Obama's faces merged together. The passerbys we spoke to had no idea until I pointed it out to them. Obama has said on many occasions that he feels a kinship with Lincoln. The other provocative print is the vision of Michelle Obama as a radical Black Panther.

In the photo with me is a woman named Janelle who I met on the sidewalk. She is from Tampa and now lives in D.C. She painted a picture of this mural. I will post it when she emails it to me.

If you want to see this wall for yourself, you have to view it soon. Bulldozers and construction crews are already there to construct a new building over the wall.