The Ly2 mural plans are complete. I'll need a high-working platform, some plastic sheeting and many other materials. The complexity of the design seemed to be a surprise. The result perhaps more of stunned silence than acclaim - though this is, actually, the best response to any artwork; stunned silence greeted most of Beethoven's symphonic premieres. All good artworks start with exactly that. Here it is:
The resulting mural would be 13x3M high. Here is a close-up of the Signalman, the central figure. Each grid is 1M:
And a mock-up of the shaded image:
The mural reads, as I may has said, right to left, with the industrial revolution on the right, and the present information revolution towards the left. There are many questions, uncertainties. Nature hides, cowers, everywhere.
Well, the practical work of painting will take over, then the performance in Nantwich. What then?
Those two words are the central message of my mural. We have the past, the now. What comes next?
In we breathe. Onwards we walk, gazing towards the stars.
