An anti-American painting in Tehran. Iran's leader is forging an anti-Western national identity while reaffirming Iran's role in the Muslim world.

 The image above comes from the New York Times. For me it is visually intriguing. The different styles of both brick and painting style. The precision and complexity of Persian ornament and design and the gun itself, an appropriation of american street art itself, loaded and pointed back upon American policy (and culture?). Two types of bricks, a wall of very Bostonian red bricks abutt another wall of a different sort of brick.The woman blends into her own shadow. There are so many ways to read this photo. I could look at it for hours, if my laptop battery had the juice.