I’m taking the popular #TBT as an opportunity to look back at my personal and professional photos and share my progress as an artist. I must confess I wish I was better at chronicling my evolution, but I’m getting better at it nowadays!
Also in part of A Word A Week Photography Challenge – Mural.
Here is a photo of young, college me (charmingly handsome, I know) standing in front of my freehanded, sharpie mural (WIP), in a colleague’s studio apartment in South Tampa, Florida. The wall was behind the main stairwell and served as a focal point for the entire place.
I spent countless hours creating this mural – knowing all the while it would be painted over one day when the following tenant would move in. But there was something to that temporariness that gave me freedom to create such a large scale drawing without over thinking it. A professor once told me to “not get too attached to a single piece of work”, because it is meant to be sold, given away, and in this case, painted over.
Needless to say, we enjoyed this mushroom army and opened cellar door images-within-images for the rest of our college days. This is the only picture of this ephemeral mural in existence.
Have any similar stories, works, or photos? Please share!
McCallister Sculpture 
great response to the challenge and probably the only person who can claim to have made the mural 🙂
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100 years ago my senior year in high school we did a huge mural outside our art room that was aquatic/underwater themed. I went back last year and it was still there–weird but pretty cool.
Honestly, most paper that is put in front of me looks like your mural–way less awesome though! It looks like that took you forever to do.
DIYJustCuz
(Brittany)
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I really understand how free it feels knowing works like this are so temporary. I draw on my sidewalk with chalk a lot and it is so nice to not be so critical of your marks. Although freeing in such a liberating way it is bitter sweet to see it fade away. I have even considered digging up a slab after essentially becoming so attached in the end.
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yeah sounds familiar! was gonna rip out the drywall but in the end, it take letting go sometimes.
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I really understand how free it feels knowing works like this are so temporary. I draw on my sidewalk with chalk a lot and it is so nice to not be so critical of your marks. Although freeing in such a liberating way it is bitter sweet to see it fade away. I have even considered digging up a slab after essentially becoming so attached in the end.
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