Movnat Denver
Mural description
Despite our moniker as one of the sunniest states, the secret treasure of Colorado is our sprawling skyscapes. This mural would capture them, spreading large, lively clouds out as a bright backdrop for a native bird or predator, poised in their element, but paradoxically frozen in an almost dream-like state. The animal will rest between reality and the stylized serenity one longs to encounter them in when moving through nature.
There they will willingly wait, as if passersby stumbled upon them and this perfect moment, staggered by both their presence and size, encouraging all who see the mural to stop, think, and breath. Reminiscing, returning to a childlike state where one may have still actively sought the chance to catch this creature. But such a moment quickly passes, unlike the mural there to preserve it.
This style of work is great for a recentering welcome into a space that inspires creative thoughts and creates comfort. An example is visible in its companion piece gifted pro-bono to inner walls of MovNat Denver off west up Colfax. MovNat Denver is a community-building fitness facility geared at rediscovering and honing natural human movements, restoring us to how our bodies are built to move and adapt while breaking the static mould of conventional exercise. Using modular equipment that creates playful landscapes for balancing, climbing, swinging, running, jumping, crawling and more, it reminds all who visit that we too are animals. With that philosophy infusing my work, my murals used the light, leafy lime green of MovNat to completely color a huge Tanager in the front room, leaving it careening towards viewers over a distant landscape below. The same green colors a peacefully perched puma in the back room on a tree branch stretching from a life-sized but stylized tree, overlooking a journey of multiple walls of mountains and clouds, done, like the front room, in black linework on white walls. This detailed but minimalistically colored work focuses viewers on the integrated nature of nature itself, making the wild world one with the inner world. And that's the intention I have for this next piece as well: merging the natural with the man-made, reminding everyone who sees it of the wild truths and longing within.
There they will willingly wait, as if passersby stumbled upon them and this perfect moment, staggered by both their presence and size, encouraging all who see the mural to stop, think, and breath. Reminiscing, returning to a childlike state where one may have still actively sought the chance to catch this creature. But such a moment quickly passes, unlike the mural there to preserve it.
This style of work is great for a recentering welcome into a space that inspires creative thoughts and creates comfort. An example is visible in its companion piece gifted pro-bono to inner walls of MovNat Denver off west up Colfax. MovNat Denver is a community-building fitness facility geared at rediscovering and honing natural human movements, restoring us to how our bodies are built to move and adapt while breaking the static mould of conventional exercise. Using modular equipment that creates playful landscapes for balancing, climbing, swinging, running, jumping, crawling and more, it reminds all who visit that we too are animals. With that philosophy infusing my work, my murals used the light, leafy lime green of MovNat to completely color a huge Tanager in the front room, leaving it careening towards viewers over a distant landscape below. The same green colors a peacefully perched puma in the back room on a tree branch stretching from a life-sized but stylized tree, overlooking a journey of multiple walls of mountains and clouds, done, like the front room, in black linework on white walls. This detailed but minimalistically colored work focuses viewers on the integrated nature of nature itself, making the wild world one with the inner world. And that's the intention I have for this next piece as well: merging the natural with the man-made, reminding everyone who sees it of the wild truths and longing within.
