Color Collage Study

"The composition is tightly designed within the linear structure of the drawing so that the solid color areas fit together like pieces of a puzzle."  --Rene' Joseph

Improvising within the chosen structure, the artist Rene' Joseph played with the elements of a peopled landscape.  Mythological images along side more conventionally realistic figures symbolize the play of reality and imagination.

"The long expanse of the wall required a story-image to act as a building block for the more abstract shapes."  --Rene' Joseph

Repeatedly doing the same image, the artist made many preliminary sketches and collages of the same basic image.

"I was interested in seeing what would change--and what would be empathized next."   --Rene' Joseph

Straight boulevard lines converge in to meet at a distant vanishing point in a non-existent horizon.

"This theme of the distant horizon is repeated many times within the image."

 Later, these separate sketches would be refined into one image.

Because funds for paint had yet be raised during the design phase, Rene' Joseph did several variations on a black and white theme.

With gray as a third color from mixing black and white, the artist initially planned on a monochromatic mural design but worked at securing contributions for a full color mural. 

Finial choice of colors for the image depended on donations.