 The official Week of Hope theme for Tuesday is "Remembrance", and we aimed all day to dutifully represent this idea. As work continued around the clock on the Week of Hope Mural (pictured above), small Tape Art teams were dispatched throughout Oklahoma City.
Oklahoma City Arts Festival
The Oklahoma City Arts Festival is a springtime celebration of visual, performance, and culinary arts, and was the original catalyst for Tape Art’s trip to Oklahoma City in 1995. Out of that trip grew Tape Art’s entire Hope Project - including the Hope Mural, The Eleventh of September, and Tuesday's work on the Week of Hope Mural.
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During the 2005 Arts Festival, Tape Art worked on the architecture of Myriad Botanical Gardens, creating a host of vignettes. |
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Our vision was simple, to populate the garden with an exotic blend of silhouetted animals. Tape Art served as a wonderful medium for representing a variety of creatures, like a Kangaroo, a Hippopotamus, and a baby blue whale. Our role was that of a performance art team, and the festival goers enjoyed watching us as we worked on the walls, conjuring these narratives with our fingers and hands.
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Above: I like to think that hanging out with birds is basically the same thing as hanging out with dinosaurs.
Right: Interview with a rhino.
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Woodson Recreation Center
Legends will be told about the "Well-aged of Woodson", a team of seniors who make their recreational center one of the most excellent places i've had the pleasure of Taping.
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Strangely enough, the good people of Woodson were under the impression that Tape Art would be performing for them.. drawing on the walls while they sit back and watch.
While this may seem reasonable to our readers, It was clear to us at the time that the good people of Woodson had the energy and gumption to particpate themselves, and would enjoy both process and product more as a result. Thankfully, we were right, and below is the video to prove it.
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Pierce Elementary
Imagine for a second that Pierce Elementary and Tape Art are two waves with a similar frequency and amplitude traveling in the same direction but on different planes. When Tape Art traveled to Oklahoma City in the year 2005, these two waves finally met. The resulting constructive interference created a wave of drawing - energy so massive it can only be measured in smiles.
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