The Blake Building

One context for the Rutherford/Suarez mural is its host building. I wanted to show that. I also wanted a photo to include that lantern.

This was the first mural completed in the 2019 Bright Walls Festival; it was the last I photographed. For me that's mostly an accident of geography, as it's approximately the farthest mural from Jackson Coffee, where I usually meet with my friends. But another truth is that I saved this wall for last. I'd seen it on my way into town, and knew it needed to be photographed differently from the others.

Anyway, here it is.

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I didn't know when i started taking these photographs i'd make such a production of presenting them. I just got caught up in the project.

Will I do it again? Probably not. The main problem's drawing boundaries. Just to mention a few nearby projects:

Jackson's Bright Walls had a similar festival in 2018.

Kalamazoo has murals all over the place.

Battle Creek's Color the Creek was mentioned in yesterday's writeup.

Lansing had a festival similar to Jackson's while I was posting these, called Below the Stacks.

And there's the Grand Rapids ArtPrize, which is similar-but-different, and on a larger scale.

It's not like any of these projects need me. But I had fun photographing this one.