How wonderful to see Pat Brier’s photo homage to Edmonds take its place of honor as our town’s first exercise in civic murals. My only complaint is that it fails to take full advantage of the wall on which it appears.
I admit it, I am spoiled by the large mural culture which is flourishing up and down the coast, where murals do not merely decorate the walls of buildings — they subsume them! Buildings literally disappear into the art that adorns them.
As Kevin Bruce, author of “Large Art in Small Places: Discovering California Mural Towns,” observes, “Lacking big-city sensory overload, small towns have fewer elements that compete for aesthetic attention, and a large-scale (emphasis added) mural becomes the focal point of the community.”
In the furtherance of this historic first step, let us commit to creating more and larger murals to anchor Edmonds as the premier
“Mural Town” of the great Pacific Northwest.
We have the talent. We have the inspiration. And, we have the walls.
Go for it!
Steve Guinn
Edmonds
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