Margaret's SOL #7 Slice of a Mural at Reflections on the Teche not only took me back to New Iberia, Louisiana, where I lived for about five years in the 70s but gave me the idea of using murals to connect places along the way , in this case the three places before Yuma.
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| Wray Simmon's Mountainair NM train mural (2006), photo by David McLane
I moved here from Mountainair NM and there from Davis CA, both sites of abundant public art and murals: respectively, MMAC Community Art Program (preceded by Art Alley 1999) and Davis' Transmedia Artwalk.
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Ultimately, this post is as a much about change as it is about sites of memory that murals can preserve or overwrite.Red brick archways framing live oak trees soon will greet visitors to Lafayette City Hall. Instead of pulling into the parking lot of Lafayette's city hall (formerly the original, pre-mall Sears department store on University) and facing a plain brick wall, residents soon will see red brick archways framing live oak trees
This blog post is for the 2017 Slice of Life challenge, hosted by Two Writing Teachers. Slicers write all through March, a post a day, every day of the month. We read each others' posts and engage in extended written conversations commenting on them
Wow, Vanessa, what an interesting topic, a clever slice of your life in various places. I'm thinking of all the places I've lived now and thinking back to public art and murals. I can't think of one from every place I've lived, though I'm not such a visual person. You must have an eye for art!
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My first blog was one for/about the Mountainair NM arts community, although it probably with my mother. I was an only child, she was a formally trained artist, and we lived in a series of small towns --isolated, out of the way. Years later, I realized there were a lot of art lectures.
DeleteBefore that, teaching literature, I learned how much students liked visuals -- photos, related art, etc. and what a difference they made "seeing" the work. Before the internet I would load a backpack with art books. The coming of the internet was -- literally -- a load off of me.
Don't give up on slicing. I love your theme: "Sites of Memory." The images are stunning.
ReplyDeleteThanks Glenda -- not likely I'll give up -- I started blogging in 2006. I would like to complete a March challenge. It's a good way to recharge my blogging batteries too.
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