"Ars et Scientia"
2015
aerosol enamel on brick
Mural commissioned by Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts.
Painted on the brick facade of Northeastern's Meserve Hall. Especially coincidental and personally significant for EL MAC because his parents met while his father studied engineering at Northeastern and his mother was studying painting at nearby MassArt.
"The focus of the piece is an allegorical image of an ethereal goddess, a sort of Greek muse, who floats in a grayscale with subtle hints of color while holding a bolt of electricity in one hand and and a paintbrush in the other. Her head is raised to the stars above and her mind seems focused as spiraling chemical reactions of muted red and blue manifest into the rhythm behind her. In this work you can find El Mac’s past, present and future. The goddess is modeled after his wife. In her hands is the source material that created him. The electricity in one hand represents both science and his father the engineer, while in her other hand she holds the paintbrush which is both art and his mother the painter. The stars above her allude to the possibilities and promise of the future, as well as the space program which spurred El Mac’s father to pursue a career in engineering which was the catalyst for the family's journey West"
Painted on the brick facade of Northeastern's Meserve Hall. Especially coincidental and personally significant for EL MAC because his parents met while his father studied engineering at Northeastern and his mother was studying painting at nearby MassArt.
"The focus of the piece is an allegorical image of an ethereal goddess, a sort of Greek muse, who floats in a grayscale with subtle hints of color while holding a bolt of electricity in one hand and and a paintbrush in the other. Her head is raised to the stars above and her mind seems focused as spiraling chemical reactions of muted red and blue manifest into the rhythm behind her. In this work you can find El Mac’s past, present and future. The goddess is modeled after his wife. In her hands is the source material that created him. The electricity in one hand represents both science and his father the engineer, while in her other hand she holds the paintbrush which is both art and his mother the painter. The stars above her allude to the possibilities and promise of the future, as well as the space program which spurred El Mac’s father to pursue a career in engineering which was the catalyst for the family's journey West"
A collection of murals by EL MAC.
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