#wall murals

I wanted the birds to look like they were actually in the space so first thing after doing the draft was to do a lighting study

after that I covered the walls in letters in lieu of a projector/vr headset bc i have neither of those :) Then i take a picture of the section of wall and superimpose the lineart over top of it so I can pencil in the lines

et voila

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"This mural is more than paint on a wall.

It is memory made visible.

Today, our family stood in Chandler as a community chose to remember Emmett Louis Till not as a moment buried in history books, but as a child whose life continues to shape the moral courage of a nation.

Seventy years ago, my cousin Emmett’s story awakened the conscience of the world because his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, refused to let the truth be hidden. She showed us what it means to turn grief into movement, memory into mission, and loss into lasting change.

We are deeply grateful to Greater Bethel AME Church for lending the wall of their church as sacred ground for this public witness, and to Shining Light for carrying this mural from vision to reality.

Public art like this becomes a form of civic testimony. It tells every young person who passes by that history is not somewhere else. It lives here. It lives with us. It asks something of us.

Thank you to the City of Chandler for choosing remembrance over erasure and truth over silence.

We honor Emmett by what we build next to preserve his memory."

Had the opportunity to throw myself into making my first mural 👁🌱

Despite all the doubts I had, happy to have experimented and learned from something I had never done before.

Osiris and cobras, Pompeii

Samnite warrior with his whole ass out