Murals as a Story Teller

The summer of 2018, we started the Portland Mural. It took all summer to paint and was done brush stroke by brush stroke in 97 degree heat on a wall that kept sunshine until 2:30 in the afternoon. It was a community mural and was selected by the people that live in the building at 17th and Rowan (Roun - as we locals call it). They liked the flowers. They are bright and beautiful and as one resident said "Makes us proud to live here". Which is exactly how you should feel about your home.

Portland was one of the first neighborhoods established in the city of Louisville and the city grew up around the Ohio river. The flowers were picked to reference the varying nationalities that came through Portland and made it their home. Cornflowers for German immigrants, shamrocks for the Irish. England and India represented by the rose and for the French, the iris. The King Protea flower represented Africa. The mural's story is one of "all different but all the same". These flowers are just like any bouquet, beautiful because each flower, when grouped together, creates a completely unique arrangement.