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Work

Carytown Monarch Mural

An abstract hand-painted mural for a Carytown financial firm, built from the shapes a monarch and its milkweed share.

The finished mural on the red brick wall beside Northbank Partners, oversized monarch butterflies on yellow and pink flowers, the hanging Northbank sign in front of it
The wall before painting, bare red brick with a white graffiti tag on it and the monarch waystation planted along its base
The same wall square on, with the wooden platform I built over the waystation so the planting was not trampled while I worked

Northbank asked for the monarch's life cycle. I developed their idea into a wall about how all living things are connected.

The wall cleaned and primed white at dusk, the platform still in place along its base
The mural half painted, flowers and a wing on the left and white primer still showing on the right
The mural nearly finished, a ladder still leaning against the wall
The mural from the brick patio, the Northbank storefront along the left and the painted wall closing the far end

From the street, butterflies and flowers. Up close, the same shape is a wing and a petal at once.

Clients looking at the printed reference images along the office wall on opening day
The mural seen from inside the office through the floor to ceiling glass, with clients sitting on the patio in front of it