About This Piece

“Dark Dark Dark” is a constructed, three-dimensional mural inset into a vertical garden that is meant to help create a social economy through the sharing and harvesting of food at The Temple building as well as Curtis Park and Five Points. The mural depicts what is meant to be a trickster spirit emerging from the ether and acting as guardian to the garden. The arms of a larger deity are poised to drag him out of this existence and back from where he came.

“Dark Dark Dark” (Temple Living Wall) utilizes experimental modular hexagonal planter boxes to create a garden. The boxes are arranged so as to be accessible from the sidewalk. Each of the planter boxes is inset with painted and layered wood. The pieces were constructed, painted and then assembled.

Artist's Statement:
Imagine a living wall full of light and life, dozens of plant varieties from Colorado’s indigenous ecology, sustainable material elements engraved with geometric forms that reflect the religious history of The Temple, edible landscapes and painted iconography, where a sidewalk becomes a forest path glowing with the soft magic of a twilight garden.