Make it public… PLEASE.

by Starla J. King on September 28, 2012

You share your poetry with me and my heart gets steeped in compassion as I read your anger at the injustices in your world.

You share your painting with me and my stress dissolves into the colors licking the canvas edge.

You share your song with me and my thoughts become melodies and my heartbeat changes to match the pulse of life.

You share your story with me and I see my own life mirrored in the character who feels alternately lost and found.

You share your art of laughter with me and my cares dance away into thin air.

You share your art of the powerful question with me and my floundering finds an anchor of clarity.

Art shared = lives changed. More than you may ever know.

Make your art public. PLEASE.

Tagged as: connection, creativity, health, mural on building, public mural, urban art, urban renewal

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Ros Nelson September 28, 2012 at 11:30 am

This is such a wonderful mural. Love it. Thanks. Do you know who painted it or where it is?

Starla J. King September 28, 2012 at 11:46 am

Ros, that mural is only a few blocks away from our house in Philadelphia.

I don’t know specifically about this mural, but I do know it is part of the Mural Arts Program that was originally started to give graffiti artists a different way of expressing their art. There are a gazillion murals here!! (I think there are more here than any other city in the country). I am completely taken with them!

Here’s more info: http://muralarts.org/about/history

rebecca @ altared spaces November 14, 2012 at 10:07 am

I, too, am undone by this mural!

Art changes.

Starla J. King November 21, 2012 at 12:04 pm: “undone” is the perfect word for it! I go out of my way now to see this mural, to look at the little details I have missed before.

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Elizabeth September 28, 2012 at 6:10 pm