By Aimee Murillo, OC Weekly
A memorial was set up outside of the Crosby club where the victim was brutally beaten (KTLA)
It’s been over two weeks since the senseless killing of Kim Pham happened outside of The Crosby in Downtown Santa Ana last weekend. Readers as far as Los Angeles and even the UK have picked up on the story, reeling in shock while OC residents collectively shake their heads at Santa Ana, the people and city as a whole, in indignation.
In tribute to Pham, supporters have adorned the utility box outside The Crosby where Pham was brutally beaten with candles, flowers, and Pham’s photographs, but in due time, that utility box will undergo another major visual change.
A couple of months back, I wrote about Santa Ana City Council’s effort to bring more art in the community by granting artists the chance to design and paint over the utility boxes in the city with their own art; Visual artist Federico Medina was assigned the utility box that has become Pham’s memorial, and plans to adapt his artistic vision to honor her.
Federico Medina with some of his art. Photo from OC Weekly.
“My original concept for the box was to show the diversity in the city to help break the stereotype of Santa Ana and show the progress of new life and energy that had been continuing,” Medina told the Weekly. “It’s more important than before to show that we are a city of growing diversity and accepting cultures in the form of showing a collage of faces of different people all connecting together and lifting Santa Ana as a whole.
Read the full story by Aimee Murillo from OC Weekly.
