Still Life With Mural

Murals seem to be popping up everywhere you look in Portland, and especially in the Alberta neighborhood in the Northeast quadrant. In the fall I plotted a walking tour for myself. I had a great day out with my husband and oldest son, walking through Portland neighborhoods in search of murals, stopping for lunch along the way, and taking photos. I'd like to plot more mural walks in other Portland neighborhoods this spring, and write them up as little walking tours at some point.

This mural isn't my very favorite one, but I love the interplay between the painted surface of the wall and the live grasses planted in front of it, and the way the angle of the roof of the structure at the far end of the wall is echoed in the real building behind it.

I can almost imagine this man in the blue shirt turning from his work in the garden, to part the grasses so that he can get a better look at the real world outside his painting.

This is what I love about public art--it interacts with its environment in a way that art in a museum can never do. It lives in our world.

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