Floodwall Mural Pilot Project Waterfront Park
OVERVIEW
The landscape painting
The majority of the mural is a modern landscape painting depicting the area of the park - as if there were no buildings or people. Highlighted with special imagery are Corn Island, Shippingport Island, Portland Canal with nods to other special places. Under the gate is below the surface: under the river and archaeological layers
QR codes around the mural link to sites that give history on lost communities from the area.
AR is added to enhance the experience.
A relief map installed on site for vision impaired park goers.
A crank box installed with oral histories.
The 2 information walls:
A) The icons of flora and fauna from the mural are painted here as a seek and find for park visitors
B) Centers on the history of flooding and the flood wall system.
PAINTING STYLE
The overall mural will be painted in the style of the Frankfort Avenue mural featured below.
The gates painted to imitate ornamental metalwork.
The landscape painting
The majority of the mural is a modern landscape painting depicting the area of the park - as if there were no buildings or people. Highlighted with special imagery are Corn Island, Shippingport Island, Portland Canal with nods to other special places. Under the gate is below the surface: under the river and archaeological layers
QR codes around the mural link to sites that give history on lost communities from the area.
AR is added to enhance the experience.
A relief map installed on site for vision impaired park goers.
A crank box installed with oral histories.
The 2 information walls:
A) The icons of flora and fauna from the mural are painted here as a seek and find for park visitors
B) Centers on the history of flooding and the flood wall system.
PAINTING STYLE
The overall mural will be painted in the style of the Frankfort Avenue mural featured below.
The gates painted to imitate ornamental metalwork.
The core of the mural design is about community.
Help me include your input in these three areas: 1. Animals, birds, fish, bugs another critters that you would like to see included in the landscape. 2. The gates are to be painted like ornamental metal work as a tribute to the foundries from the area. Do you have some favorite designs you'd like to see incorporated? 3. I am looking for oral histories relating to the communities past and present in the area. What tales from the river and its neighborhoods do you have? |
Click the above icon to fill out the three question form.
Thank you so much! Laurie |
The West Wall facing east is the sunrise
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The East Wall facing west is the sunset
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Frankfort Ave Mural
This project, a reinterpretation in paint of a digital mixed media piece from my series of work: #KentuckyTheBeautiful.
The opportunity to create at this scale was a dream. The pandemic changed my routine, so I capitalized on the large stretch of time needed to hand paint a 500 square foot mural.
No stencil, no projection, no spray. The conditions called for hand drawing and painting.
The opportunity to create at this scale was a dream. The pandemic changed my routine, so I capitalized on the large stretch of time needed to hand paint a 500 square foot mural.
No stencil, no projection, no spray. The conditions called for hand drawing and painting.
Modern Family Dentistry Building 3210 Frankfort Ave
Bardstown Road Mural
Painted in a similar manner, this was started at the end of pandemic shut down. Many of us felt timid to reemerge.This street scene denotes a feeling of being able to gather without worry, something we all deserve to experience.
Private Residence Murals
Match an existing piece to fill the entire wall.
Children's bedroom cloud wall.
Photo: Liz Dutton
Photo: Liz Dutton