We can thank COVID for something: during the pandemic, San Franciscans enjoyed the eastern mile and a half of JFK Drive in Golden Gate Park closed to cars so as to encourage recreation in fresh air. And we loved it; the wide street became a playground for cyclists, skaters, runners and walkers. In November 2022, over the objections of museums in the area, the voters gave 63 percent support to keeping this section of JFK car-free. And so it remains.
And then Recreation and Parks made JFK Drive a venue for public art. There are dragons and sea monsters and also pianos and pingpong tables.
And among this art stand two human-size bronze critters, a female rabbit and a male hound, dressed in human business attire, going about their bourgeois lives, driving to work and cooking a meal.
Someone has dressed them for this moment:
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