“REFLECTING ON OUR IMPRESSIONS”
by Erik Burke
Painted in 2018 on the back of a parking structure adjacent to Living Stones Church ( @LS_Church ) on S Virginia St, Erik Burke, aka OverUnder, aka @OU35, says this wall is where midtown transitions into downtown. Created for the annual Midtown Art Walk, in part hosted and sponsored by @LS_Church, the mural celebrates the 10th anniversary of the festival, with each segment representing one year. Additionally, Burke says the wall is full of rich symbolism, including images of 10 common fruit trees in the area (Apricot, Apple, Asian pear, Pear, Sour Cherry, Plum, Peach, Cherry, Nectarine, and Crabapple); the shape reflecting a to-scale representation of the new Virginia Street Bridge; a central dandelion representing the growing economic disparity within local residents; and (hope you can see it better than I) a subtle fingerprint overlaid across the wall that Burke sees as a nod to the fingerprint in “The Creation of Adam” in the Sistine Chapel. @ou35/
