This was a project I did my sophmore year at MICA. I really love public art and wanted to take advantage of how open MICA is to expressing personal ideas and beliefs. This piece is part of a concentration I did concerning the idea of Revelations 21 which spoke about a New Jerusalem established on earth. New Jerusalem also had a lot of personal meaning for me because at that time I was a baby Christian and completely awe struck by what changes had been happening in my life in such a short time.
The piece takes place in front of MICA's main building and was virtually unavoidable. I put New Jerusalem in a pit that could either be interpreted as being buried or excavated. It was symbolic of the face that people's faith and who they really are get's tested and reinterpreted through out the college experience and with their faith they can either thrive in it or "bury" it in a way.
Not only that, I got to experiment with illusionistic chalk drawing (Woo hoo Julian Beever!) and got to understand that process and what I had to do in order to create a piece this big.
Also in case you're wondering, the pictures were taken by Jonathan Trundle and the reason why the design lost some of it's vibrancy is because it rained midway through the process. We salvaged as much as we could (yes it was a team effort) and we were able to preserve a lot of it, but some of the color came up anyway. I was just thankful it wasn't completely destroyed.
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