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Holy Crape! It’s Myrtle Madness
Frank Hallam Day’s Holy Crape! It’s Myrtle Madness is now installed at Central Space. At 6,000 square feet, the mural featuring crape myrtle trees is more than 30% larger than the scoreboard at Nationals Ballpark.
The image is part of The Rosslyn Series, a collection of photographs that the BID commissioned from Day. Taken from October to November of last year, these pictures offer glimpses of Rosslyn through an artist’s eyes. Captured by his camera, the neighborhood’s everyday public spaces are transformed into dramatic, even mysterious imagery.
Holy Crape! is located along the block of Wilson Blvd. between N. Moore and N Lynn Sts. It covers the façade of an empty office building that will eventually be razed as part of the multi-year Central Place construction project. The mural is the third piece commissioned by the BID as part of its award-winning temporary public art program launched last spring. The program aims to soften Rosslyn’s hard edges as many parts of the neighborhood undergo redevelopment.
To create a mural of this size, Day says several dozen smaller photographs were tiled together to form an enormous, 45 gigabyte, high-resolution image.
“I’m very pleased that the greatest artwork since the Lascaux Cave paintings is featuring Rosslyn,” he joked. “Now you can forget everything you’ve seen in between!”
“I’m so grateful to our Public Art Curator Kim Ward,” adds the Rosslyn BID’s Urban Design Director Lucia deCordre. “She is so knowledgeable, and has found some amazing artists -- like Frank -- for our temporary public art program. It's such an exciting initiative.”
Related Items:
- Giant Mural by Frank Hallam Day To Be Unveiled at Rosslyn’s Central Space (3/10/14)
- Giant Mural by Frank Hallam Day Installed at Central Space (3/21/14)
- To learn more about Frank Hallam Day and see other examples of his photography, visit his website.