It never ceases to amaze me how many times the same idea will strike more than one person, and now I see that the same principle applies to photography.

I've previously mentioned that anti-Bush sentiment reaches psychotic proportions around here, and yesterday I happened upon one particularly despicable "political" sign pasted onto a mural on San Francisco's Market Street. (Sorry about the quality, but all I had was my cell phone.)

Now I see that someone has already photographed and posted the same sign. It's obviously been there for some time, because the newspaper background is eroding away. But it's definitely the same sign, as the cracking and paint are identical to the mural.

Somewhere in my unconscious, this must have resonated with my thoughts about the control and defense of "art." What's the art here? The mural? Or the "political" sign on the mural? Is is defacing art to deface the defacement?

(Perhaps someone should replace the word "BUSH" with the word "ART.")