THE PRESS-ENTERPRISE - Murals have been flourishing across Riverside in recent years. And David Eastmond is tracking them down.
Eastmond, a professor emeritus in UC Riverside’s Department of Molecular, Cell & Systems Biology, said he had more time on his hands after retiring in 2020, shortly after the coronavirus pandemic began.
So the longtime Riverside resident started walking, and later cycling.
“Whereas before, I’d always ridden out from my home towards the east and towards the south,” he changed directions, Eastmond recalled Friday, June 23. “And I came across all these murals.”
Eastmond began photographing the murals and other art he found. Initially, he put the photos on Instagram, but they were overwhelming his account’s feed. So he started a blog in January.