Murals

It is easy to forget the enormous power

of the planet, and the way it holds us

through the daily realities that add up to

what we perceive as “life”. The mural

projects are an effort to create a con-

stant touch point that expresses this

energy. Successful religions create

iconographies that proliferate in a range

of scales from the personal and

pocket-sized to the public and archi-

tectural. Painting walls with rocks is

intended to remind us that our true

structure for all life is the earth. Humans

have painted symbols of its beliefs on

walls since our earliest record of history

in the caves in Lascaux. This work is

moored in its spiritual content by this

same effort.

Project Color Corps

WHAT WE LEARN FROM THIS PLACE, 2024

Acrylic on stucco

Variable dimensions

BAYVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

The Bayview Elementary Project was in

line with the Project Color Corps

commitment to inspire community

involvement in fostering creative

environments in the public school

system. An incredible collaboration

between local Rotary Clubs, Sherwin

Williams Paint, Student Service volun-

teers, a single chosen artist, and the

entire school community, the whole

process is built on an inspiring seminar

with the school about the meaning of

color. Color palettes are voted upon by

the school community and I was given

those palettes to make proposals. By

extending that process with my own, I

asked students and faculty members

to submit rocks that were important to

them and hunted the grounds for

additional rocks.

The final project is a cross section of the

specimens found on the land, mixed

with the beloved rocks and chosen

colors of its community. A poem ties

the narrative of each rock together,

imagining a history of this land and the

way the place now affects the people

that so lovingly steward it in fostering

young minds.

Marcarelli/Brown Residence

Green, in all its shades, and its

emanation from the planet, was the

impetus for this project. Partners Paul

Marcarelli and Ryan Brown committed

to a 5 day process in their home in

Litchfield, CT. A gorgeous property with

natural rock formations and undated

rock walls, they designed their gardens

to be a combination of the land’s pre-

existing rocks with quarried local rocks.

The final choice of 4 reflects the

profound experience of stability they

have in this home, 4’s being a sacred

number in metaphysics, and the

number of “the home”. Chosen for their

difference in size, color, and history, the

4 final rocks are themselves 4 walls that

hold their more spiritual experience of

this place in form. The window in this

room is a tableau of all of these greens.

I love that this work can be so personal,

connecting people so directly to the

places inwhich they live their lives.