You may recall a little fun we had back in March with a campaign to name the song “Come to Washington” by Lincoln Ross the city’s unofficial anthem. To jog your memory a bit, we here repeat the song’s first verse:

Washington, D.C.
A really great place to be,
So if you’re into having fun,
Come to Washington.

Awesome. After telling you all about this, we solicited nominations for other potential anthems and then voted (several times) to determine the winner. Amid much hand wringing and calling of names, The Postal Service’s “The District Sleeps Alone Tonight” was chosen the winner, and we pretty much figured that settled everything.

But these Ross fans turn out to be awfully persistent, and now they’re adding visual aids to their efforts. According to a press release from Sonnig Records, which is behind the campaign, some kind of crazy artwork was put together at the March launch event, and the canvas, which we’re dubbing the People’s Collage, will be spending the summer bar hopping across the District.

To create the People’s Collage, Sonnig got artist J. Anthony to paint the campaign’s title (presumably also “Come to Washington”) and a Southeast streetscape as a background. Then, the press release goes on, “guests [at the launch party] filled the canvas with color, sayings, and objects.” This is hard for us to picture, particularly the filled with objects part.

We, and everyone else, won’t have to imagine for long, however. You can catch the itinerant painting as it moves about town over the next few months. In June, the PC will reside at Love Cafe. In July, it will move to Mr. Henry’s Capitol Hill, in Southeast. In August, it will take its place at the Market Inn in Southwest, and in September it will inhabit my personal haunt, Colonel Brooks Tavern in Northeast. Pay your respects and size everything up if you can; the priceless artwork will be auctioned off when the circumnavigation is complete.

Album cover from CDBaby.com. It should be noted that the disc also features a track entitled “Lincoln’s Macarena.”