THE LONG FORM MURAL

Blank wall on Fremont near 17th is waiting for a mural.

FIELD NOTE: Something I thought about when in Twentynine Palms a year ago. Murals along the roadside next to empty parcels with clear slight lines shows how brash horizontal image under a big sky is the fixed form of the desert. That’s a clear distinction from the painted walls in the vertical urban space. In the desert, monumental emptiness frames the mural's image.

D*Face in the Las Vegas Fremont District

Dabs Myla brief January 2014 appearance in the 18b with All Chrome, YoungTrav, and MDPESQ.

Same wall above just a few weeks later.

Zio Ziegler for Life Is Beautiful in Las Vegas.

Grococcyx californianus" by Chuck Caplinger in Twentynine Palms, California.

The Southern Route of the Mormon Trail by Kathy Fierro in Barstow, California.