Phase 2: Our Collaborators

This is a scale drawing of the mural which is approximately 100 feet long by 35 feet high.  Each leaf and fish will be approximately 8 feet wide and will have an individual image in it.

We are building relationships with individuals and organizations across movements and communities locally, nationally and  internationally.  Please see information on who we are working with below.  These relationships will  yield:

1)    Images that will go into the leaves of tree. We will also involve children and youth. The individual leaves will be between eight and ten feel so that the viewer will be able to see individual images.

2)    A new media component will give viewers an opportunity to interact with the project in ways that are unique to murals.  Along with a visual design the mural participants will submit audio tracks that will be accessible by cell phone, turning the street into a listening station. The viewer will be able to listen to poetry, music, interviews, etc. associated to different images in the mural.

Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and Geocaching technologies will be used to provide alternative walking tours, whereby for example, the viewer will be able to walk through downtown Olympia and view what they would see if they were walking down a street in Rafah, or viewing the wall on US/Mexico border, ec.  These locations would be layered upon each other, changing the way great distances are experienced.

Who We Are Building With

Local Community Building

MECHA