The Making of a Mural (part 2)

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Work continued on the mural… hearing protection and a dust mask were important given the hours and hours I spent with a jig saw in my hand.

The inlay for the Golden Gate Bridge comes together. Fitting it into the grass background was a trick and the bridge came apart into more pieces than I expected.

This was the most complicated single piece of the 150 inlaid parts in the mural.

Meanwhile the benches were coming along nicely. It was good to take a break from one part of the project by working on the others.

Above, a video of me testing the benches. I found out that adding the resonators, the recesses for which took me two days to build, made the instruments deafening so I had to leave them out.

Another section of the background inlay coming together. It was nerve wracking cutting out the negatives because you just couldn’t mistakes on a pieces which already had hours of work invested in them.

I started running out of room for the scraps generated by so much jig-sawing.