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When an artists’ warehouse in the Mission closed its doors for the last time in 2012, almost everything was accounted for. The artists who had made the space at 18th and Bryant streets their safe haven since 1996 hauled out their supplies, equipment and art pieces. All that was left at the end of their slow goodbye was a massive metal installation — a set of eight 10-foot-tall panels covering the facade of the warehouse.

Jane Verma, one of the creators of the piece, calls it a metal mural. She said it was important to her that it didn’t gather dust in a storage container because of what it represented. “Because it was on the facade, it was a sig

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