On the promenade of JFK in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park swims a whale born of yesterday’s treasures. The whale came to be, not as an incarnation of an animated tale by Hayao Miyazaki nor from divine discipline for flying too high with hubris; it was by the mind and passion of local artist Reuben Rude that this 49-foot humpback whale came to swim down the center of the John F Kennedy Promenade, as if heading towards Ocean beach in a river of asphalt. Constructed entirely of reclaimed wood and…
