Sunday, October 29, 2006

WPCC old mural



WPCC old mural, originally uploaded by Summer Kitchen Studio.

Here is the current mural on the wall of the community center in Hannibal Square, the historically African-American neighborhood in Winter Park, Florida. You can see that whne they remodeled the building and added a door and ramp, it went right smack in the middle of the mural, which had been centered on the wall. This basically ruined the current mural, which has also faded and peeled in the Florida sunshine.

After thinking of tiling over the current image, and keeping its design intact, we decided for serveral reasons to start pretty much from scratch, using this mural as inspiration. First, since we are going to a lot of time and effort to make it a permanent tile mosaic, and there is a chance of further renovations or remodelling, we plan to build the mosaic on panels that could be removed if necessary.

Second, because of the door placement, we've decided to move the whole design over to the left, between the two doors, instead.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

good idea

Anonymous said...

good idea

Anonymous said...

how do I get out of this area?