Off Limits  Art of Darkness  When Miguel Flores learned there
was a sudden vacancy on the walls of the nearby Diedrich
coffeehouse at 1201 East Ninth Avenue -- where art shows are
usually booked a year in advance -- the 25-year-old Capitol Hill
resident jumped at the chance to fill it. His exhibit went up
June 3, along with an artist's statement that noted he enjoyed
riding his bike and "making inflammatory statements." Which got
only hotter when he heard four days later that at least one of
his pieces -- an eight-foot portrait of Saddam Hussein -- had to
come down.  Seems the "pseudo-liberals" at Diedrich decided it
was offensive, Flores says. Not that he hadn't warned them in
the rest of his statement: "With my paintings, I hope to focus
on iconic imagery and the impact they have in contemporary
culture and media. The two images I have used here are those of
Saddam Hussein and Ariel Sharon. In using Hussein as a subject
matter, I am not seeking to either vilify him or heroize him,
but rather I am asking the