Obama's victory inspires homeless painter

Obama's victory inspires homeless painter
By Kainaz Amaria, Times Staff Photographer
In print: Friday, November 7, 2008

Daryle Burch, front, looks into the distance from the front of the barbershop belonging to Abdur-Rahim “Max” Abdullah, left. Abdullah’s son, Waleed McFarland, center, also works there. Max commissioned Burch to paint the Obama mural.

It began when Daryle Burch took a break from painting a business on E Martin Luther King Boulevard. He saw a Barack Obama campaign flier and noticed Obama's skin tone matched a nearby convenience store. Inspiration met opportunity. In 30 minutes he was done. He had painted Obama's face on the store's side wall. The impressed owner asked for another Obama on the front. Then barber Abdur-Rahim "Max" Abdullah, whose shop is nearby, commissioned a mural for his building. He wanted Obama getting a hair cut
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