“Today, seventy-five years later, the floodwall acts more as a monument or reminder of the disaster than a relevant deterrent to actual flood waters. They attract graffiti artists, and the city and local officials are constantly battling. It’s not uncommon to see city employees out by the floodwall, armed with leftover buckets of relatively mute, dull colors of government paint from previous work projects. The resulting cover-up builds huge swaths of greys, pale blues, greens, and tans. Giant rectangles and squares of color field paintings. It’s a comical irony that the city, in trying to cover up the graffiti art, is unknowingly creating new works of art!”