For the past eight months I have been working on a massive art mural project. It involves painting a 23m x 7m wall of a church building which faces a large open-air car park. As this was to be a community art project, I had to think of a design that could involve a large and diverse group of people including children. My design was inspired by the biblical parable of a seed that grew into a large tree which gave food and shelter to the birds. In the local West Australian context, the tree that came to my mind was the fascinating Boab. I had a vision of a community of people under a giant boab tree. I used silhouettes, which were taken from photographs of real people who volunteered to pose for the images. We took photographs of well over a hundred people, and the final design contains nearly a hundred silhouettes.
I am getting really excited now, as we have reached the final phase which is the actual painting of the mural! Tomorrow I get to go up a cherry picker, for the very first time in more than half a century!
Here I was, a few days ago, placing the first important line on the wall, now washed and ready for painting. I hope to document the progress of the mural in the coming days. Countdown begins!
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