untitled mixed media

Work

Short Pump Park Mural

An outdoor museum of Short Pump's history, hand-painted on three concrete walls and the ground between them in Short Pump Park, Henrico, Virginia.

The finished mural at Short Pump Park, three painted concrete walls standing on the black-and-white painted map, seen from the grass
The three concrete walls before painting, the old yellow paint peeling in patches, in the middle of the park
The center wall before painting, close up, the printed panel gone and the paint peeling off the concrete

These are the three walls as the county handed them to me. The printed panels had lifted at the edges and come down, and the paint underneath was peeling. The county had paid for those panels once already and watched them fail.

A 3D render of the three painted walls on the park lawn, made before any painting
The three walls stripped, repaired, and primed white, ready for paint
The first wall painted, a house and buildings in grayscale, the other two walls still white

These are the walls stripped, repaired, and primed white, and the first one painted. Every picture is painted straight onto the concrete, front, back, both ends, and the top. Nothing is fixed to the wall, so there is nothing to peel.

The concrete slab between the walls being painted black, seen from above, the three walls finished around it
The finished walls and the painted map from the park path, white property lines and names on the black slab

The black ground between the walls is a map of the land the park sits on. I painted it white on black across the concrete slab. The lines are the old property lines, and the names are the people who owned them years ago.

The wall painted from the county's photographs, an old Short Pump storefront in grayscale
The wall painted from old engravings and maps, a Native woman and a village in grayscale, the painting wrapping around the end of the wall
The finished mural from above, the three walls standing on the painted map of the land the park sits on