Volume XVIII, Issue Xa: Murals Bring Nature to Town.
Floral Beauty for Where No Garden Will Grow
It was a few years ago in Fifeville, a Charlottesville neighborhood where I was listening to a client and her tenants discuss a potential mural for an alley in the shopping center next to a beauty salon. When the salon owner honestly said: “We just like FLOWERS!” I knew we had a direction. She quickly chose one of my Springdale Hollyhock photos for our starting point and ‘Heaven’s Hollyhocks’ began! The painting brought life to a place where tenants often moved on, citing the ‘feeling’ of the alley space. Now young women with their fresh coiffures were instagramming themselves in that very space. It was a transformative project! The hairdressers and the neighboring barbers loved the new energy. What we learned fro that experience is that there are some hard urban environments that could be so ‘transformed.’ To that end we’ve created some designs for other spaces.
Hollyhocks [click to visit] by Bob Kirchman.
Elysian Lilies.
Proposal for a Parking Garage Mural.
