Renewal Murals
I ran across these murals recently in my archive of potential blog posts. They all had one thing in common, the theme of renewal. Therein Happy Easter!! They remind me of spring, new birth, new awakening and new growth. Change, when it is afoot can be uncertain but mostly good.
I really like this one in North Stonington’s Health Center, where artist Karen Krogseng painted the murals along with four students from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). I like how the tree branch goes over the doorway. There’s a bird’s nest with eggs and even (Easter) bunnies in this one. This mural depicts change branching from one side of the door to the other where the leaves are barren but new life is about ready to break open.

The “Bird’s Eye View” mural not too far from Pittsburgh has a creative perspective from above with the birds looking down on the community below and gives you an indication of what they may see as they fly the friendly skies. It has a 3-D look because the bricks lend themselves to defining the houses they represent. The story of how this came to be is pretty fascinating as well. Happenstance often seems fated but maybe it’s a larger force looking out for us. This story seems to indicate this to me. Click here to see some before pics and the mural in progression

Artist Dylan Karges was working in Bill Poe’s garden with a lumbering mother and baby giraffe mural as part of an Art in the Garden event in 2011 in Starkville, Mississippi. Poe stated that the objective of the event, “is to heighten the visibility and engagement in appreciation of the arts, to get people out so they can create a forum to share and inspire others to raise the bar for their gardens and the general aesthetics for the town.” Who doesn’t find giraffes some of the most curious of animals? I love how this mural becomes part of the space naturally with the foliage — some painted and some real.

This next set of murals via Studio G, depict street artist Roa’s work. They are somewhat dark but have that beautifully detailed look of illustrations from a different decade. Here’s a tumblr site with more of Roa’s work. I’ll end back where I started with a bunny but this one much larger than life. Easter is like that.

Happy Easter, again!