Sydney Faul

Downtown Missoula is a melting pot, an area where you often see many different classes of people intermingling on the same small sidewalks. There is the banker in his finely tailored suit juxtaposed with the broke college student with holes in his jeans or the mother holding the hands of her children. There is the man strumming an old beat up guitar on the street corner, hoping to collect some change in his overturned hat, and the businessman who strides coolly by, not making eye contact. My sign contains a quote by Mark Twain, "A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo but doesn't." I'm hoping it will be seen as a commentary on the expected and acceptable behavior of different socioeconomic classes. It is located on the lamppost in front of El Cazador.