Well that didn’t take long.
Yesterday we wrote about the vigil held for Derrick Rose’s knees.
Artists/believers Brendan Carroll and David Beltran decided to hold a vigil for Pooh’s knees on Sunday. “When [his Rose’s knee injury] happened again no one was mad, everyone just felt pain,” Carroll says. “I was at work and everything just stopped. The next thought was ‘how can we make him better?’” The duo wheat pasted a rendering of Rose and set up shop under an I-90 overpass and invited the similarly despairing to join in. As a Rose-themed soundtrack played, Chicagoans came through and contributed to the vigil which still stands at Fullerton Ave. near N Damen.
David Beltran and Brendan Carroll—the two artists who created the shrine — told DNAinfo that the shrine has already been vandalized.
Beltran said he had “no idea” why someone would tear it down, but he started hearing about it on Twitter after people went to visit the memorial.
“It kind of bothered us a little but it started becoming a public participation piece,” he said, adding that people want to help put it back together.
A post on the Facebook page referencing the artists pseudonyms described the latest development at the memorial under the Kennedy Expy. at Fullerton Avenue: