Client: School
Location: Bapchule, AZ, United States
Completion date: 2022
Artwork budget: $16,000
Project Team
aggent
Laurie Post
Tela Art Resource
design/fabricator
Helle Scharling-Todd
artist
Overview
The roadrunner project is a wonderful story of how an animal can intervene, connect and help humans. The story goes that a roadrunner stels lightning fire with a fire stick in the mouth to the left of the image. It then returns towards the right side of the image with the fire stick and gives it to the humans. The humans are happy, as the fire can give better living conditions. The lightening God is angry and tries to shoot the roadrunner with arrows on fire while running. The upper left corner is black, and a counter balance to the yellows, greens and red. In the black I inserted a circle with lightening, representing the lightning God.The piece measures 6’x 7′,
Goals
The goal of the integration of the story into the outside wall, of the school is the children learning about this legend, and the importance of animal's role for humans.
Process
I had a fine collaboration with the art agent Laurie Post, Tela Art resource Agency, and she with the school.
Additional Information
The story was great, and it shown the importance of animals for the Indians.