Concept to Reality
Through winter 2022-2023, Miranda Construction and Rockerbuilt erected the elegantly curving “wall” structure that will carry the mosaic mural at Banks Common. It stands ready to receive the meticulously designed artwork, scheduled to be installed by Lead Artist, Liz Richter, and project ceramicist, Kristen Falkirk, in summer 2023.
Image Description: an architect’s digital rendering of the Banks Common space with the curved “wall” where Liz Richter’s mosaic artwork will be installed.
Image Description: a photo showing 12 of the post-holes for the “wall,” standing ready in the park for concrete to be poured.
Image Description: the completed “wall” without the mosaic artwork, stands in Banks Common wrapped in protective plastic. It is remarkably similar to the architect’s digital rendering.
Watch the Structure Come to Life
Click to watch a time-lapse of construction efforts from late 2022 through early 2023.
The video above presents short clips of construction work, starting with the survey, and continuing through to the placement of the panels upon which Lead Artist, Liz Richter, will install the mosaic.
Image Description: at the Clifton Community street fair, LVA’s booth stands behind the words “Paint a Rock,” written in colorful chalk on the road. Liz Richter talks with four visitors inside the booth.
Image dscription: at the table in LVA’s booth, four young children and three parents are absorbed in the creative process of decorating small rocks for eventual inclusion in the landscaping of the Multisencory Public Art for Clifton.
Clifton Community Festival
In October, 2021, LVA and Liz Richter hosted a booth at an annual Clifton neighborhood community fair. Visitors learned about the Multisensory Public Art for Clifton project, and were encouraged to decorate a rock. The colorful rocks gathered that day will join many others created by both blind and sighted students and residents as part of the landscape design immediately adjacent to the artwork.
Image Description: many colorful painted and bedazzled rocks dry on paper plates in the sun at the Clifton Street Fair.