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everyday transactions

Description : title: Everyday Transactions: the Familiar Inconceivable

materials: ink,paint, and varnish on wood.
size: 6 ft x 16 ft

description:
This mural draws upon elements of the everyday, asking us what really makes up our day to day experience as individuals, as a community, and as a culture? It reflects elements of business, warfare, and leisure activities found to be commonplace. Drawn from multiple perspectives, this mural compresses visual space and suggests a diversity of viewpoints and viewers.

The mural is centered around natural resources, specifically questions about control of these resources. The location, the side wall of a Citgo gas station, is significant given the references to oil, water, and commerce in this mural. Water plays an important role in the mural and in our experience. Talk of global warming, tropical storms, and the increasing scarcity of water has forced us to consider our relationship to water, as well as each other and the world.




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