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Positively Fourth Street is a work of artistic prophesy that brilliantly
expresses a period in our recent countercultural history. Painted on several wooden
panels in 1976 by the San Francisco muralist John Rampley, it has occupied
a number of locations around the city, most recently at Fort Mason on San
Francisco Bay where it is, unfortunately, suffering considerable damage
from the weather. On a political timetable far grander than most humans
can grasp, Rampley's vision of the city reclaimed by the wild may be the
best prediction we have of our true postindustrial future. In any case,
the artist's image of free-ranging birds and bears and deer reminds us
that there is another player to account for in the environmental crisis. Wait long
enough, and Mount Rushmore may one day wear its own natural face again.
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