Pic of Mural at NAPA auto parts
North Fork --- as a community of historians and art supporters-- has a wonderful opportunity to paint portraits of the millmen at work in the old saw mill at South Fork. Dave, the new owner of the NF Market, has OK’ed a sketch of such an activity to be painted one and half stories high on the wall that faces the Post Office and is quite visible from the Crazy Y. What is needed is four to five folk who are comfortable with a paint brush and own some artisitic talent, and also sponsors who would donate funds to purchase the needed acrylic paint, brushes, and clear-coating (donated paints disallow color choices so funds are far better). The sketches would have to be applied with grease pencil at night via a projected image and would involve scaffolding in both the rendering of the sketches and the actual painting. Dave Novell Construction has offered a loan of his scaffolding for the project. Art-muralist Joan Constable is willing to chair the project and Susan Joy and Naomie Poran offered to assist when their time allows. The project would involve about three weeks of work and if started early enough could be finished by end of June --before the hot weather hits--and ready to delight our visitors at the Loggers' Jamboree and in the Fall, the participants in the Grizzly and Fall Festival at Town Hall. This is a project the 'community' would own and the finished painting should have a viability of 10 to 15 years as the wall is protected from direct sun.
Joan of Art, AKA Joan Constable of the Burning Brush Art Studio
What would a better world look like?
Wherein both art and science guide a manifest destiny…
And wherein conceiving in beauty is becoming beauty.
Matthew Englund,
North Fork
Excerpt from “One of 106,456,000,000 Homo sapiens passing through”
