Still wading through emotional response to Sunday's appreciation of Frank Bender, the world's best-known forensic sculptor and a true Philadelphia treasure. Bender, 70, died last week in his home/studio on South Street. He had been diagnosed with pleural mesothelioma in 2009 and outlived his prognosticators by more than a year.
Frank devoted his life to art -- prior to solving crimes with his shockingly lifelike busts of the anonymous dead, he worked as a painter and commercial photographer. Many readers wonder whether the city might honor him in some way visuallyv.
No pressure to Jane Golden and her visionary crew at the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, but a Frank Bender mural would probably do the trick. But what? Where?
If not a memorial on a wall, then what? Any other ideas?
-- Monica Yant Kinney
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