Hi all,
I know everyone been wondering and waiting… a new site has been found for the mural. The building owner wished to paint before the mural is done, so once that is completed we will FINALLY be rolling on this project!
Author: smangan
Granted! for a mural!
Stone Soup Saturday from Germantown United CDC has awarded my proposal for a mural with a small grant. The mural entitled “Music is the Nature of Germantown” will be created in conjunction with the Imani Education Circle Charter School and the broader Germantown Community.
A community workshop will be held on Sunday, September 28 at the iMPeRFeCT Gallery at 5601 Greene St., Philadelphia 19144
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Becoming in love with the space.
Details of a finished and installed plate prior to printing.
The beginning. March 17, 201
Every day in the tiny little space making marks and making impressions. The texture all in shades of white is so yummy like ice cream that at first I could hardly bear to make a a mark. It’s so public and I feel like I’m making art on a tightrope where everyone can see me fall. But I’m on a deadline and Thomas Sharpless is going to take a panorama with every change. SO…. I’d better make a change.
Details of the finished plates
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- Details of a finished and installed plate prior to printing.
March 15th
Build details
The inception of ‘Scapegoat’. Building the plates, or walls, began in my studio. I would have three weeks to pull prints off of the walls and it would take me more than that to create the structure to work from.
The opening would be on the Ides of March. In ancient Roman times this was the New Year. The villagers would cast all their sins onto a goat and drive it out of the village, or into a river on this day. Thus ‘Scapegoat’.
I decided to make it a meditation on modern day sins and collected cigar butts, cigarette butts and matches to build my composition and texture.
The process was disgusting, I had to wear gloves, and still felt nauseous at times.
Everything would have to be firmly affixed to watercolor paper and sealed completely to be impervious to ink and water.