A Mural for Puppets | Greg, Ryan, and Justin
Westminster St
Greg (cover image, right): We are painting a mural for The Avenue Concept (a local public art organization) right now. And that’s in collaboration with Big Nazo, who owns this building. It’s their future headquarters for home base. So we’re working on that right now. Big Nazo is basically like a puppet troupe. They make life-size and occasionally larger than life-size foam rubber costumes that they wear to various performances. They play music and it’s kind of a performing arts thing. So the characters in the mural are kind of representational of some of their puppets. You can see some of them up in the room. That’s kind of working with that idea and creating this mural that wraps the space for them.
I got into spray painting just seeing it everywhere as a kid and kind of a natural inclination to want to make art. And combining, I don’t know. It’s just kind of the unexplainable art thing in the environment. It just kind of developed from that. It’s just a natural direction, I guess. Trying to finish up today, hopefully. Weather permitting. We started last Wednesday, so it’s been about a week. Just really trying to kind of crank through it here. Getting there.
Ryan (cover image, center): I have no part in the spray painting aspect of any of that stuff, I’m just overseeing the projects. So as far as my direct contacts with this, it would just be project management. It’s just coordinating like supplies and stuff, I would say.
Justin (cover image, left): I got into spray painting because of my environment, what I was seeing as a kid, and things that were popping up around Providence in the early 80s. That’s what piqued my interest. And also just the style of the work. At that point, I started skating in the mid 80s. Skateboarding kind of adapted itself to writing, as well. In a sense. I had already been interested in art as a kid. Kind of carried it on.