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Hi Lampasans! Muriel here…
Saturday, 16 May 2009
Something’s happening on that scaffold at the Lampasas Hardware Building! Today there were up to 14 people painting on the new Vision Downtown Lampasas! mural, “Generations.” It reminded me of my trip to Italy in the 90s – scaffolding and construction cranes everywhere – making something old new again…for a new generation. How appropriate that this new mural is titled “Generations.” I was told by one of the volunteers that the image represents generations of businesses that were housed in that very building over time. A photo of the Texas Trading Company, taken in the 1880s, has been transformed into the first part of the mural. The Trading Company delivered goods by wagon train to farmers and ranchers as far as 150 miles out of town. In order to transfer the image to the wall for painting, the photo was projected onto the wall with a computer and projector at night, then volunteers traced the outlines of shapes and numbered them for colors. This looks like the start of something big and I’ll check back as they get further along. Hey! Did you know that there’s a SCUBA diver in the middle school cafeteria? I’m headed there next.Love, Muriel
