Behind Barbed Wire
by Jim Cook
Title
Behind Barbed Wire
Artist
Jim Cook
Medium
Photograph - Photograph Digital Art, Photo Painting
Description
This mural known as �Once in a Millennium Moon� can be seen on the side of the AT&T building in Shreveport Louisiana. The artist of record is Meg Saligman who explains her work as being a �Giant Celebration of Life and Its Cycles�. Birth, Puberty, Marriage and Death. Nineteen models are featured in the mural and were selected randomly from a cast of thousands. Ranging in age from 3 months (baby in a basket) to a woman 80 years old. They are all meant to showcase the diversity of the community�s people. There are 40 objects in the mural each of which has meaning to a family or person in the Shreveport / Bossier Community. There is much symbolism present in the mural depicting the areas beginnings and it�s history.
Meg Saligman conceived a project that involved more than 2600 people. She devised an ingenious way to engage the community in numerous paint parties (40 % of the mural was painted by citizens) and a grid and application of paint that was interesting to say the least. She was well served by the artist team she assembled to help with the many challenges a project like this encounters.
The Mega Mural painted in 2000 and 2001 is the nation�s largest publicly funded mural reaching 8 stories high and encompasses over 25000 feet of wall.
This was a project of the Shreveport Regional Arts Council through the artists and communities America creates for the Millennium residency program of the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation and the National Endowments for the Arts.
I titled this the way I did because of the incongruity of art and barbed wire.
For more of my work please be sure to visit my galleries here in FAA at http://1-jim-cook.pixels.com/
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February 2nd, 2017
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