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Pretty neat piece of covert art — no small project either. How do you figure he/she/they did that?

Check this cool art and design blog for the back story and more pictures involving the imaginative environmental critique of this obsolete Southern Californian dam.

This article appears in Sep 22-28, 2011.

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Ed Abbey Would Be Proud: Dam graffiti in California

by The Source Staff, The Source - Bend, Oregon
September 22, 2011

<h1>Ed Abbey Would Be Proud: Dam graffiti in California</h1> <p class="byline">by The Source Staff, The Source - Bend, Oregon <br />September 22, 2011</p> </p> <p>Pretty neat piece of covert art &mdash; no small project either. How do you figure he/she/they did that?</p> <p>Check this <a href="http://thefoxisblack.com/2011/09/21/can-a-simple-piece-of-graffiti-bring-a-dam-down/" target="_blank">cool art and design blog</a> for the back story and more pictures involving the imaginative environmental critique of this obsolete Southern Californian dam.</p> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/ed-abbey-would-be-proud-dam-graffiti-in-california-2139152/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com&quot;&gt;The Source - Bend, Oregon&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cropped-Untitled-design-4.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=15483&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/ed-abbey-would-be-proud-dam-graffiti-in-california-2139152/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/bendsource.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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