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April 01, 2007
Work in Progress
It's 5:49pm on Sunday, Aprl 1, and we are painting on walls. If you happen to be in the vicinity of 3311 Rhode Island Avenue, Mt. Rainier, MD (just outside DC), by all means, come join in the fun. We got here just before 3:00 and have made the place our own.
I'll be brief, as Robbi needs my help much more than she needs her picture posted on the Web, but here are a few glimpses for the curious.
Moving the paint. One of the most complex steps in starting a mural.
Contemplating words. Robbi draws great inspiration from the ridiculous things I write. This is why I love her. Here she is, searching for the truth embedded in the langauge. (Please never tell her that there is none).
The mural, which draws its inspiration from a page of For the Love of God, is a send-up of the Godzilla movie poster. In order for this to read, it's fairly important that the people look Japanese. Robbi printed out this guy's face in order to use as reference, afraid that she would not be able to recapture his Japanese-ness when the time came to paint him large-scale. Her fears were realized. The first pass yielded nothing but a pasty white guy (in other words, he looked far too much like me). The printout was consulted. The Japanese-ness was restored.
Amazingly, I was allowed to help. To be clear, I was permitted to paint only with a roller in a large, uncomplicated section of the mural.
But this small contribution filled me with uncommon pride.
While I puff my chest and try to pretend that painting a big section of wall black is hot stuff, Robbi is perching on top of an 8 foot ladder meticulously sketching, translating a composition from an 8 by 8 inch page to a 13 by 7 foot wall.
In the wake of the Man Joe painting, she is extremely grateful that this installation does not involve painting on the ceiling. But still she feels the weight of challenge. She's been doing a lot of fretting thus far, worried that the thing will turn out horribly.
But I still think she's having fun.
That's enough for now. More to come.
Posted by bogenamp at April 1, 2007 05:54 PM
Comments
So far so good! The Robbler looks hawt up on that ladder, peering coyly over her shoulder with a slick come-hither look. Almost has hawt as does Matthew with that roller. Yee-owza! I'm in the throes of fantasy baseball hell at the moment and, while it's nothing like painting on a wall, I remain an ennui-ridden putz. I look forward to more pictures of Matthew looking manly.
Posted by: Ko-ris-u-chan at April 1, 2007 06:36 PM