oh nothing, just painting a giant wall sized cow mural at our new work digs, as one does. and nooooo, i’m not painting the whole thing. all the employees have an opportunity to come paint as much or as little as they want. then artist valerie miller from steel cow goes over it and makes it look amazing.
you can follow along with the ov employees painting barbara on steel cow’s facebook page.
for a small town in southwest wisconsin we have no shortage of murals! this one is on the forgotten works warehouse. i run by this newish mural almost every day and it always gets me to thinking what might be going on in the scene. i haven’t come up with any answers yet.
on the side of the wonderful driftless cafe. you might ask, “why the fish theme?” the driftless region is well known for fly fishing.
this one is on the side of our local community radio station, wdrt. some people come him the space cowboy. well, i don’t know if anybody else does but my brain does which then, for better or worse, cues “the joker” by steve miller band and the opening lyric ( more weird neuronal associations. maybe because it’s on the side of a radio station which makes me thing of song lyrics? ):
“Some people call me the space cowboy, yeah
Some call me the gangster of love
Some people call me Maurice
Cause I speak of the pompatus of love”
and today i learned steve miller made up the word pompatus after mishearing a vernon green lyric.