{"id":759939,"date":"2026-04-28T22:31:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T22:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/759939\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T22:31:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T22:31:17","slug":"a-shipping-container-transformed-into-art-hits-la-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/759939\/","title":{"rendered":"A shipping container transformed into art hits LA streets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Topline:<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Keep an eye out as you move about Los Angeles this week, there\u2019s a good chance you might catch a 40-foot, traveling work of art. Here\u2019s where you might encounter it and what it means.\n    <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><b>The piece: <\/b>Using house paint and other materials, Wilmington-raised artist Edgar Ramirez has emblazoned a shipping container with the words \u201cI want to be free\u201d in hues of green and red.<\/p>\n<p><b>The quote:<\/b> Ramirez said the language of his piece, \u201cI Want To Be Free (That\u2019s The Truth),\u201d is a response to a collective fear he senses in our region, whether it\u2019s from ongoing ICE raids or economic hardship.<\/p>\n<p>        Keep up with LAist.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re enjoying this article, you&#8217;ll love our daily newsletter, The LA Report. Each weekday, catch up on the 5 most pressing stories to start your morning in 3 minutes or less.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s like this constant struggle of just trying to make it, you know? And there\u2019s a lot of that throughout Los Angeles,&#8221; Ramirez told LAist. &#8220;And I think it\u2019s something that a lot of us feel together. But we don\u2019t really talk about it as much as I think we should be.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><b>Background: <\/b>The piece was commissioned by the L.A. County Department of Arts and Culture.<\/p>\n<p><b>Will you spot it?<\/b> Ramirez is on the road now through Friday with his piece, making stops from Burbank all the way to Long Beach, with a public event at Plaza de la Raza on May 1 to coincide with May Day.<\/p>\n<p><b>Plan ahead: <\/b>You can check out a map of <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DXnGipnEp64\/?img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ramirez\u2019s trek on his Instagram<\/a>. The piece is slated to be at <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.plazadelaraza.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Plaza de la Raza<\/a> in East L.A. from 10 a.m. to noon on May 1.<\/p>\n<p>                                    <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Topline: Keep an eye out as you move about Los Angeles this week, there\u2019s a good chance you&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":759940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2961,312269,224,5337,11642,98729],"class_list":["post-759939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-la","tag-la-county-public-art","tag-los-angeles","tag-losangeles","tag-public-art","tag-shipping-container"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116484707897126007","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=759939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/759940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}