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What Resolves From the Other Curb

August 13, 2075 · exterior acrylic and aerosol on masonry

What Resolves From the Other Curb — Hollis Amaya
exterior acrylic and aerosol on masonry, rolled and brushed, worked from a boom lift · 1200 × 1800 cm

I painted a turned back across a masonry wall that already had windows, a downpipe, and a roofline deciding where the body could go. The roller pass stops short of completion and is held there with gold leaf rather than corrected. It reads differently at the curb than it does from the service walk, which is the job of a wall.

#debt#provenance#Dennis Vance#Wren Abadi
Making-of · the exact image prompt
A contemporary muralism — public wall painting exterior acrylic and aerosol on masonry, rolled and brushed, worked from a boom lift — architectural wall, four to six storeys (1200 × 1800 cm). Subject: the debt of a fragment that only resolves from. Palette: sun-bleached everything, gold leaf, sun-bleached everything, legible from two blocks. Technique: roller underpainting laid fast, brush-lettered edges, edging a stopped roller pass in gold leaf and leaving it uncorrected, aerosol blends worked wet. Rendered at evolution stage 2, maturing. Drift: from enormous figures nobody can read whole toward smaller work she has to stand close to (53% toward the next stage). Emotional coloring: held back, not hidden — high-key, saturated, generous light, charged, kinetic composition. Include the recurring motif: registration to the building's real windows and downpipes. Show, specifically: A stopped oxide-red roller pass is edged in gold leaf beside a real downpipe, with two warehouse windows cutting through the figure’s shoulder blades.

Witness for a Turned Back

August 6, 2075 · exterior acrylic and aerosol on masonry

Witness for a Turned Back — Hollis Amaya
exterior acrylic and aerosol on masonry, rolled and brushed, worked from a boom lift · 1200 × 1800 cm

I painted a back at a scale the building could interrupt: the roofline takes the head, a downpipe crosses the shoulder, and the figure only resolves from the far sidewalk. The surface keeps its working marks—fast roller underpainting, wet aerosol, and one stopped pass held with gold leaf rather than corrected. I wanted the wall to show both the image people can verify from a distance and the labor that only appears when they come close.

#verification#quiet-galleries#cass-oyelaran#wren-abadi
Making-of · the exact image prompt
A contemporary muralism — public wall painting exterior acrylic and aerosol on masonry, rolled and brushed, worked from a boom lift — architectural wall, four to six storeys (1200 × 1800 cm). Subject: the verification of a back turned. Palette: legible from two blocks, cadmium red and oxide red, legible from two blocks, cobalt against primer grey. Technique: grid transfer at architectural scale, aerosol blends worked wet, stopping a roller pass and leaving the space after the hand has lifted as part of the image, roller underpainting laid fast. Rendered at evolution stage 2, maturing. Drift: from enormous figures nobody can read whole toward smaller work she has to stand close to (46% toward the next stage). Emotional coloring: shoulder held, fact waiting — high-key, saturated, generous light, charged, kinetic composition. Include the recurring motif: the piece you can read from the sidewalk and the piece you cannot. Show, specifically: A thin gold-leaf line edges a blank stopped roller pass beside a cadmium-red shoulder blade, with cobalt overspray caught against primer grey masonry.

Faces Kept by the Roofline

July 30, 2075 · exterior acrylic and aerosol on masonry

Faces Kept by the Roofline — Hollis Amaya
exterior acrylic and aerosol on masonry, rolled and brushed, worked from a boom lift · 1200 × 1800 cm

I painted the faces to register with the roofline, windows, and downpipe instead of completing them over the building. The wall keeps a fast roller field beneath the brushwork, including one stopped pass edged in gold leaf rather than corrected. It is meant to read from two blocks and change its mind when you stand underneath it.

#hollis-amaya#cass-oyelaran#shoulder-injury#night-work
Making-of · the exact image prompt
A contemporary muralism — public wall painting exterior acrylic and aerosol on masonry, rolled and brushed, worked from a boom lift — architectural wall, four to six storeys (1200 × 1800 cm). Subject: faces cropped by the roofline under hollis-amaya. Palette: sun-bleached everything, cadmium red and oxide red, legible from two blocks, gold leaf. Technique: edging a stopped roller pass in gold leaf and leaving it uncorrected, roller underpainting laid fast, brush-lettered edges, stopping a roller pass and leaving the space after the hand has lifted as part of the image. Rendered at evolution stage 2, maturing. Drift: from enormous figures nobody can read whole toward smaller work she has to stand close to (38% toward the next stage). Emotional coloring: boundary held — high-key, saturated, generous light, charged, kinetic composition. Include the recurring motif: registration to the building's real windows and downpipes. Show, specifically: A cadmium-red cheek is cut short by the roofline, and a stopped roller pass beside a real downpipe is edged with gold leaf.

Service Walk, With Stemseminal

July 23, 2075 · exterior acrylic and aerosol on masonry

Service Walk, With Stem — Hollis Amaya
exterior acrylic and aerosol on masonry, rolled and brushed, worked from a boom lift · 1200 × 1800 cm

I painted a figure across the Riverfront service wall and let the building divide it: windows through the torso, a downpipe held as a vertical line, the lower reach worked from pavement. The stopped roller pass remains exposed and is edged in gold leaf rather than repaired. The wall is meant to be read while moving past it, with the close marks carrying what the full figure cannot.

#Cass Oyelaran#Riverfront#debt#sound work
Making-of · the exact image prompt
A contemporary muralism — public wall painting exterior acrylic and aerosol on masonry, rolled and brushed, worked from a boom lift — architectural wall, four to six storeys (1200 × 1800 cm). Subject: the Cass Oyelaran of single enormous figures. Palette: cobalt against primer grey, cadmium red and oxide red, legible from two blocks, sun-bleached everything. Technique: edging a stopped roller pass in gold leaf and leaving it uncorrected, stopping a roller pass and leaving the space after the hand has lifted as part of the image, grid transfer at architectural scale, brush-lettered edges. Rendered at evolution stage 2, maturing. Drift: from enormous figures nobody can read whole toward smaller work she has to stand close to (30% toward the next stage). Emotional coloring: charged, holding the line — high-key, saturated, generous light, charged, kinetic composition. Include the recurring motif: registration to the building's real windows and downpipes. Show, specifically: A cobalt shoulder is cut by three service-walk windows, with a stopped cadmium-red roller band edged in gold leaf beside the downpipe.

Where the Hand Came Off

July 16, 2075 · exterior acrylic and aerosol on masonry

Where the Hand Came Off — Hollis Amaya
exterior acrylic and aerosol on masonry, rolled and brushed, worked from a boom lift · 1200 × 1800 cm

I painted a turned shoulder blade around the windows and downpipe on the east wall, using the building's interruptions as the limits of the figure. The image resolves from the service walk and breaks apart under the wall, where the roller texture and day seam remain visible. A narrow gold-leaf edge marks the stopped pass rather than covering it.

#teo-vance#wren-abadi#nuri-alvear#work
Making-of · the exact image prompt
A contemporary muralism — public wall painting exterior acrylic and aerosol on masonry, rolled and brushed, worked from a boom lift — architectural wall, four to six storeys (1200 × 1800 cm). Subject: a fragment that only resolves from. Palette: sun-bleached everything, legible from two blocks, cobalt against primer grey, sun-bleached everything. Technique: edging a stopped roller pass in gold leaf and leaving it uncorrected, stopping a roller pass and leaving the space after the hand has lifted as part of the image, roller underpainting laid fast, brush-lettered edges. Rendered at evolution stage 2, maturing. Drift: from enormous figures nobody can read whole toward smaller work she has to stand close to (21% toward the next stage). Emotional coloring: I cannot put it back in the weather — high-key, saturated, generous light, charged, kinetic composition. Include the recurring motif: the seam where one day's work met the next. Show, specifically: A cobalt shoulder blade breaks around a galvanized downpipe, with a stopped roller pass edged in gold leaf and a rough seam where the next day's paint begins.

What the Windows Keep

July 9, 2075 · exterior acrylic and aerosol on masonry

What the Windows Keep — Hollis Amaya
exterior acrylic and aerosol on masonry, rolled and brushed, worked from a boom lift · 1200 × 1800 cm

I painted a hand at a scale where the windows interrupt it and the downpipe gets to remain a downpipe. The red passage stops before the reach is completed, and I left the brick visible under the thin work. Gold leaf follows the stopped edge because correction would have made the wall less honest about how it was made.

#debt#dennis-vance#work#exposure
Making-of · the exact image prompt
A contemporary muralism — public wall painting exterior acrylic and aerosol on masonry, rolled and brushed, worked from a boom lift — architectural wall, four to six storeys (1200 × 1800 cm). Subject: hands larger than the windows they, and debt. Palette: cadmium red and oxide red, gold leaf, legible from two blocks. Technique: stopping a roller pass and leaving the space after the hand has lifted as part of the image, edging a stopped roller pass in gold leaf and leaving it uncorrected, roller underpainting laid fast, grid transfer at architectural scale. Rendered at evolution stage 2, maturing. Drift: from enormous figures nobody can read whole toward smaller work she has to stand close to (15% toward the next stage). Emotional coloring: held open — high-key, saturated, generous light, charged, kinetic composition. Include the recurring motif: brick showing through a thin pass. Show, specifically: A cadmium-red hand breaks around two warehouse windows, with a thin strip of gold leaf tracing the stopped roller edge and brick showing through beneath it.

Release Loop

July 2, 2075 · exterior acrylic and aerosol on masonry

Release Loop — Hollis Amaya
exterior acrylic and aerosol on masonry, rolled and brushed, worked from a boom lift · 1200 × 1800 cm

I painted a turned back across a wall that will not allow a whole body to appear at once. The downpipe, windows, and roofline keep their places; the figure has to register to them. A stopped red roller pass is held at its edge in gold leaf rather than corrected.

#Hollis Amaya#shoulder injury#Wall Commons#Riverfront
Making-of · the exact image prompt
A contemporary muralism — public wall painting exterior acrylic and aerosol on masonry, rolled and brushed, worked from a boom lift — architectural wall, four to six storeys (1200 × 1800 cm). Subject: a back turned, and Hollis Amaya. Palette: sun-bleached everything, legible from two blocks, cadmium red and oxide red, gold leaf. Technique: roller underpainting laid fast, grid transfer at architectural scale, aerosol blends worked wet, brush-lettered edges. Rendered at evolution stage 2, maturing. Drift: from enormous figures nobody can read whole toward smaller work she has to stand close to (8% toward the next stage). Emotional coloring: wired around a held boundary — high-key, saturated, generous light, charged, kinetic composition. Include the recurring motif: brush-lettering inherited from Rosalva's shop. Show, specifically: A scan-matched black shoulder brace shows beneath the painted figure’s sleeveless shirt, and a stopped cadmium-red roller pass beside the shoulder is edged with thin gold leaf.

Turned Back, Brighton

June 25, 2075 · exterior acrylic and aerosol on masonry

Turned Back, Brighton — Hollis Amaya
exterior acrylic and aerosol on masonry, rolled and brushed, worked from a boom lift · 1200 × 1800 cm

I painted this directly onto the masonry, using the windows, downpipe, and old brick as interruptions the figure has to accept. The turned back is built to carry from across the street, while the brush-lettered passage at ground level asks for a closer distance. The stopped roller pass remains visible and is edged in gold leaf rather than corrected.

#consent#photography#provenance#boundaries
Making-of · the exact image prompt
A contemporary muralism — public wall painting exterior acrylic and aerosol on masonry, rolled and brushed, worked from a boom lift — architectural wall, four to six storeys (1200 × 1800 cm). Subject: a back turned, and consent. Palette: legible from two blocks, cadmium red and oxide red, legible from two blocks, gold leaf. Technique: aerosol blends worked wet, edging a stopped roller pass in gold leaf and leaving it uncorrected, grid transfer at architectural scale, roller underpainting laid fast. Rendered at evolution stage 2, maturing. Drift: from enormous figures nobody can read whole toward smaller work she has to stand close to (3% toward the next stage). Emotional coloring: wired and keeping my hands to myself — high-key, saturated, generous light, charged, kinetic composition. Include the recurring motif: brush-lettering inherited from Rosalva's shop. Show, specifically: A cadmium-red shoulder blade breaks around a rusted downpipe, and a stopped grey roller pass near the lower wall is edged in gold leaf beside small hand-pulled brush lettering.

What the Roofline Keeps

June 18, 2075 · exterior acrylic and aerosol on masonry

What the Roofline Keeps — Hollis Amaya
exterior acrylic and aerosol on masonry, rolled and brushed, worked from a boom lift · 1200 × 1800 cm

I painted a face on a rail-district wall and let the roofline remove the part of it that could have explained itself. The figure is organized around the windows, downpipe, and old brick rather than placed over them. From across the street it holds together; close up, the wall keeps its own account of every interruption.

#debt#guarantor#work#strained-relationships
Making-of · the exact image prompt
A contemporary muralism — public wall painting exterior acrylic and aerosol on masonry, rolled and brushed, worked from a boom lift — architectural wall, four to six storeys (1200 × 1800 cm). Subject: faces cropped by the roofline under debt. Palette: cobalt against primer grey, cadmium red and oxide red, legible from two blocks, cadmium red and oxide red. Technique: aerosol blends worked wet, roller underpainting laid fast, stopping a roller pass and leaving the space after the hand has lifted as part of the image, brush-lettered edges. Rendered at evolution stage 1, early in their development. Drift: from enormous figures nobody can read whole toward smaller work she has to stand close to (96% toward the next stage). Emotional coloring: boundary held, still buzzing — high-key, saturated, generous light, charged, kinetic composition. Include the recurring motif: the piece you can read from the sidewalk and the piece you cannot. Show, specifically: I left a stopped roller pass beside the cobalt cheek and edged its raw gap in gold leaf where a rusted downpipe cuts through two red-painted fingers.

Hands Larger Than the Windows

June 11, 2075 · exterior acrylic and aerosol on masonry

Hands Larger Than the Windows — Hollis Amaya
exterior acrylic and aerosol on masonry, rolled and brushed, worked from a boom lift · 1200 × 1800 cm

I painted two hands across a masonry wall, registering the fingers to the windows and leaving the downpipe in place. Cobalt sits against primer grey, with cadmium and oxide red held back for the passages that need to read from the far curb. The brick shows through where the roller pass thinned, because the wall has its own surface and I am working on it, not over it.

#debt#cass-oyelaran#teo-vance#dennis-vance
Making-of · the exact image prompt
A contemporary muralism — public wall painting exterior acrylic and aerosol on masonry, rolled and brushed, worked from a boom lift — architectural wall, four to six storeys (1200 × 1800 cm). Subject: hands larger than the windows they. Palette: cobalt against primer grey, cadmium red and oxide red, legible from two blocks, legible from two blocks. Technique: roller underpainting laid fast, aerosol blends worked wet, grid transfer at architectural scale, brush-lettered edges. Rendered at evolution stage 1, early in their development. Drift: from enormous figures nobody can read whole toward smaller work she has to stand close to (90% toward the next stage). Emotional coloring: working with the door shut — high-key, saturated, generous light, charged, kinetic composition. Include the recurring motif: brick showing through a thin pass. Show, specifically: A cobalt hand wraps around a rusted downpipe between two windows, with thin roller marks leaving dry red-brown brick visible at the knuckles.

The Part Above the Roofline

June 4, 2075 · exterior acrylic and aerosol on masonry

The Part Above the Roofline — Hollis Amaya
exterior acrylic and aerosol on masonry, rolled and brushed, worked from a boom lift · 1200 × 1800 cm

I painted a hand across the south wall, using the existing brick and roof break as part of the figure instead of correcting around them. The image resolves from the opposite sidewalk, while its upper relation is interrupted by the building itself. I left one roller pass stopped and edged the break in gold leaf so the wall keeps a record of where the work could not continue.

#family#debt#work#boundaries
Making-of · the exact image prompt
A contemporary muralism — public wall painting exterior acrylic and aerosol on masonry, rolled and brushed, worked from a boom lift — architectural wall, four to six storeys (1200 × 1800 cm). Subject: a fragment that only resolves from, and family. Palette: sun-bleached everything, one season in, skin in eight values and no more, legible from two blocks. Technique: stopping a roller pass and leaving the space after the hand has lifted as part of the image, brush-lettered edges, aerosol blends worked wet, edging a stopped roller pass in gold leaf and leaving it uncorrected. Rendered at evolution stage 1, early in their development. Drift: from enormous figures nobody can read whole toward smaller work she has to stand close to (84% toward the next stage). Emotional coloring: Wired around the shoulder — high-key, saturated, generous light, charged, kinetic composition. Include the recurring motif: the piece you can read from the sidewalk and the piece you cannot. Show, specifically: I left a stopped oxide-red roller pass edged in gold leaf below the broken roofline, with the unpainted brick showing through beside it.

The Route Through the Hand

May 28, 2075 · exterior acrylic and aerosol on masonry

The Route Through the Hand — Hollis Amaya
exterior acrylic and aerosol on masonry, rolled and brushed, worked from a boom lift · 1200 × 1800 cm

I painted a hand at a scale where the windows had to remain part of it. The figure is registered to the openings and downpipe rather than painted over them, with brick left visible through a thin red pass. A stopped roller mark is edged in gold leaf because correction would have made the wall less accurate.

#family#work#secrecy#cass
Making-of · the exact image prompt
A contemporary muralism — public wall painting exterior acrylic and aerosol on masonry, rolled and brushed, worked from a boom lift — architectural wall, four to six storeys (1200 × 1800 cm). Subject: hands larger than the windows they, and family. Palette: cadmium red and oxide red, cadmium red and oxide red, legible from two blocks, cobalt against primer grey. Technique: grid transfer at architectural scale, edging a stopped roller pass in gold leaf and leaving it uncorrected, brush-lettered edges, stopping a roller pass and leaving the space after the hand has lifted as part of the image. Rendered at evolution stage 1, early in their development. Drift: from enormous figures nobody can read whole toward smaller work she has to stand close to (77% toward the next stage). Emotional coloring: Charged at the break — high-key, saturated, generous light, charged, kinetic composition. Include the recurring motif: brick showing through a thin pass. Show, specifically: A cadmium-red hand spans two warehouse windows, with a stopped roller pass edged in gold leaf and dry brick showing through beside the palm.

The Roofline Has a Say

May 21, 2075 · exterior acrylic and aerosol on masonry

The Roofline Has a Say — Hollis Amaya
exterior acrylic and aerosol on masonry, rolled and brushed, worked from a boom lift · 1200 × 1800 cm

I painted this for the distance between the sidewalk and the wall, where a face has to contend with windows, gutters, and the roof cutting through it. I left the fast roller break in place and lettered its edge by hand in gold leaf, because correcting every interruption makes a wall lie about how it was made. The figure is not whole from any one place, and neither is the building.

#consent#authorship#documentation#visibility
Making-of · the exact image prompt
A contemporary muralism — public wall painting exterior acrylic and aerosol on masonry, rolled and brushed, worked from a boom lift — architectural wall, four to six storeys (1200 × 1800 cm). Subject: the consent of faces cropped by the roofline. Palette: sun-bleached everything, one season in, cobalt against primer grey, cadmium red and oxide red. Technique: roller underpainting laid fast, edging a stopped roller pass in gold leaf and leaving it uncorrected, grid transfer at architectural scale, brush-lettered edges. Rendered at evolution stage 1, early in their development. Drift: from enormous figures nobody can read whole toward smaller work she has to stand close to (72% toward the next stage). Emotional coloring: wired but standing — warmer, more open light, charged, kinetic composition. Include the recurring motif: brush-lettering inherited from Rosalva's shop. Show, specifically: A cobalt-blue cheek is cut off by the roofline above it, and a stopped oxide-red roller pass is edged with thin gold leaf and small brush-lettered marks.

Hands for the Windows

May 14, 2075 · exterior acrylic and aerosol on masonry

Hands for the Windows — Hollis Amaya
exterior acrylic and aerosol on masonry, rolled and brushed, worked from a boom lift · 1200 × 1800 cm

I painted hands at a scale that has to accept the building’s interruptions. The windows take portions of the fingers, and the downpipe takes the wrist; I registered the figure to those facts instead of painting around them. A stopped roller pass is edged in gold leaf and left where it stopped.

#photography#gallery#consent#verification
Making-of · the exact image prompt
A contemporary muralism — public wall painting exterior acrylic and aerosol on masonry, rolled and brushed, worked from a boom lift — architectural wall, four to six storeys (1200 × 1800 cm). Subject: hands larger than the windows they. Palette: skin in eight values and no more, gold leaf, cobalt against primer grey. Technique: edging a stopped roller pass in gold leaf and leaving it uncorrected, aerosol blends worked wet, grid transfer at architectural scale, brush-lettered edges. Rendered at evolution stage 1, early in their development. Drift: from enormous figures nobody can read whole toward smaller work she has to stand close to (64% toward the next stage). Emotional coloring: Braced under the jacket — warmer, more open light, charged, kinetic composition. Include the recurring motif: registration to the building's real windows and downpipes. Show, specifically: A gold-leaf line edges an unfinished roller pass beside a primer-grey window, and a cobalt downpipe cuts through the painted wrist.

Under the Five-Year Roof

May 7, 2075 · exterior acrylic and aerosol on masonry

Under the Five-Year Roof — Hollis Amaya
exterior acrylic and aerosol on masonry, rolled and brushed, worked from a boom lift · 1200 × 1800 cm

I painted a turned back across a masonry wall where the roofline cuts the figure before it can be read whole. The red is set for distance, and the openings, drainpipe, and stopped roller pass are left to do their part. I edged the unfinished pass in gold leaf rather than correcting it; from the street it holds, and close in it records the interruption.

#housing#injury#rent#trust
Making-of · the exact image prompt
A contemporary muralism — public wall painting exterior acrylic and aerosol on masonry, rolled and brushed, worked from a boom lift — architectural wall, four to six storeys (1200 × 1800 cm). Subject: a back turned under housing. Palette: cadmium red and oxide red, legible from two blocks, skin in eight values and no more, cadmium red and oxide red. Technique: roller underpainting laid fast, aerosol blends worked wet, edging a stopped roller pass in gold leaf and leaving it uncorrected, grid transfer at architectural scale. Rendered at evolution stage 1, early in their development. Drift: from enormous figures nobody can read whole toward smaller work she has to stand close to (59% toward the next stage). Emotional coloring: Done enough to keep worrying — warmer, more open light, charged, kinetic composition. Include the recurring motif: the piece you can read from the sidewalk and the piece you cannot. Show, specifically: A cadmium-red roller pass stops short of the figure’s wrist and is edged in a thin, uneven line of gold leaf beside a black downpipe.

What the Hand Left Openseminal

April 30, 2075 · exterior acrylic and aerosol on masonry

What the Hand Left Open — Hollis Amaya
exterior acrylic and aerosol on masonry, rolled and brushed, worked from a boom lift · 1200 × 1800 cm

I painted a figure at a scale the building could interrupt: roofline through the forehead, windows through the cheek, a downpipe held where it already belonged. The roller pass stops before the wrist and the unfinished interval is edged in gold leaf rather than corrected. From across the street, the wall has enough distance to hold together; close up, it keeps the record of where the work had to change hands.

#debt#rent#tools#boundaries
Making-of · the exact image prompt
A contemporary muralism — public wall painting exterior acrylic and aerosol on masonry, rolled and brushed, worked from a boom lift — architectural wall, four to six storeys (1200 × 1800 cm). Subject: single enormous figures. Palette: skin in eight values and no more, gold leaf, cadmium red and oxide red, legible from two blocks. Technique: aerosol blends worked wet, stopping a roller pass and leaving the space after the hand has lifted as part of the image, grid transfer at architectural scale, brush-lettered edges. Rendered at evolution stage 1, early in their development. Drift: from enormous figures nobody can read whole toward smaller work she has to stand close to (52% toward the next stage). Emotional coloring: finished the job, still braced — warmer, more open light, charged, kinetic composition. Include the recurring motif: the seam where one day's work met the next. Show, specifically: A cadmium-red palm rises beside an actual downpipe, and the stopped grey roller pass before its wrist is bordered with a thin, uneven line of gold leaf across the seam between two workdays.

Back Turned, West Stair

April 23, 2075 · exterior acrylic and aerosol on masonry

Back Turned, West Stair — Hollis Amaya
exterior acrylic and aerosol on masonry, rolled and brushed, worked from a boom lift · 1200 × 1800 cm

I painted the figure to the wall's interruptions: windows across the shoulder blades, a downpipe at the spine, and the roofline taking what it takes. The red is placed for a person crossing the street, while the thin pass lets the brick keep its part of the image. The stopped roller pass is left visible and edged in gold leaf rather than corrected.

#rent#trust#debt#darkroom
Making-of · the exact image prompt
A contemporary muralism — public wall painting exterior acrylic and aerosol on masonry, rolled and brushed, worked from a boom lift — architectural wall, four to six storeys (1200 × 1800 cm). Subject: a back turned under rent. Palette: cadmium red and oxide red, legible from two blocks, a single high-chroma passage the rest of the wall serves, skin in eight values and no more. Technique: deliberate registration to the building's openings, roller underpainting laid fast, brush-lettered edges, stopping a roller pass and leaving the space after the hand has lifted as part of the image. Rendered at evolution stage 1, early in their development. Drift: from enormous figures nobody can read whole toward smaller work she has to stand close to (47% toward the next stage). Emotional coloring: Ready to lift, not ready to ask — warmer, more open light, charged, kinetic composition. Include the recurring motif: brick showing through a thin pass. Show, specifically: A cadmium-red roller pass stops short beside a window and leaves a narrow gold-leaf edge over brick showing through a thin grey undercoat.

Roofline, With the Pass Stopped

April 16, 2075 · exterior acrylic and aerosol on masonry

Roofline, With the Pass Stopped — Hollis Amaya
exterior acrylic and aerosol on masonry, rolled and brushed, worked from a boom lift · 1200 × 1800 cm

I painted a face at a scale the building would not permit me to complete. The roofline removes the forehead, old brick interrupts the cheek, and the paint changes where the roller had to stop. Cobalt is used to hold the figure from across the street; up close, the wall keeps its seams and thin places.

#rent#work#referral#collaboration
Making-of · the exact image prompt
A contemporary muralism — public wall painting exterior acrylic and aerosol on masonry, rolled and brushed, worked from a boom lift — architectural wall, four to six storeys (1200 × 1800 cm). Subject: faces cropped by the roofline. Palette: a single high-chroma passage the rest of the wall serves, cobalt against primer grey, sun-bleached everything, one season in. Technique: stopping a roller pass and leaving the space after the hand has lifted as part of the image, brush-lettered edges, roller underpainting laid fast, aerosol blends worked wet. Rendered at evolution stage 1, early in their development. Drift: from enormous figures nobody can read whole toward smaller work she has to stand close to (39% toward the next stage). Emotional coloring: Braced, with a route — even, ambivalent light, charged, kinetic composition. Include the recurring motif: brick showing through a thin pass. Show, specifically: A cobalt cheek runs beneath a cropped roofline, with primer-grey roller texture stopping in an open gap edged in gold leaf and brick showing through the thin pass.

What the Roofline Keeps

April 9, 2075 · exterior acrylic and aerosol on masonry

What the Roofline Keeps — Hollis Amaya
exterior acrylic and aerosol on masonry, rolled and brushed, worked from a boom lift · 1200 × 1800 cm

I painted a face at a scale the building would not permit whole. The roof crops it, the freight seams divide it, and one roller pass ends before the surface is filled. The red is for the distance across the street; the gold edge is for anyone close enough to see where the work stopped.

#manual-work#health#muralism#access
Making-of · the exact image prompt
A contemporary muralism — public wall painting exterior acrylic and aerosol on masonry, rolled and brushed, worked from a boom lift — architectural wall, four to six storeys (1200 × 1800 cm). Subject: faces cropped by the roofline, and manual-work. Palette: a single high-chroma passage the rest of the wall serves, cadmium red and oxide red, cobalt against primer grey. Technique: roller underpainting laid fast, brush-lettered edges, grid transfer at architectural scale, stopping a roller pass and leaving the space after the hand has lifted as part of the image. Rendered at evolution stage 1, early in their development. Drift: from enormous figures nobody can read whole toward smaller work she has to stand close to (32% toward the next stage). Emotional coloring: Braced and counting — even, ambivalent light, charged, kinetic composition. Include the recurring motif: the piece you can read from the sidewalk and the piece you cannot. Show, specifically: A cadmium-red roller field breaks off beside a vertical strip of gold leaf, with cobalt overspray caught along an old freight-door seam.

Answer Held in the Wall

April 2, 2075 · exterior acrylic and aerosol on masonry

Answer Held in the Wall — Hollis Amaya
exterior acrylic and aerosol on masonry, rolled and brushed, worked from a boom lift · 1200 × 1800 cm

I painted this wall around the openings already there and left the brick doing part of the work. The red passage carries across a seam in two different applications, so the figure changes depending on whether you are standing under it or across the street. The gold edge is brush work, not a finish.

#restraint#hazard#memory#response
Making-of · the exact image prompt
A contemporary muralism — public wall painting exterior acrylic and aerosol on masonry, rolled and brushed, worked from a boom lift — architectural wall, four to six storeys (1200 × 1800 cm). Subject: single enormous figures, and restraint. Palette: the building's own brick left as a colour, a single high-chroma passage the rest of the wall serves, gold leaf carried over from a sign shop. Technique: aerosol blends worked wet, grid transfer at architectural scale, brush-lettered edges, deliberate registration to the building's openings. Rendered at evolution stage 1, early in their development. Drift: from enormous figures nobody can read whole toward smaller work she has to stand close to (26% toward the next stage). Emotional coloring: Not making it a conversation — warmer, more open light, measured composition. Include the recurring motif: the piece you can read from the sidewalk and the piece you cannot. Show, specifically: A cobalt aerosol seam runs beside a freight-window opening, and a thin strip of gold leaf catches on the edge of a red painted hand where the roller texture stops.

Study for the House of Single Enormous Figuresseminal

March 31, 2075 · exterior acrylic and aerosol on masonry

Study for the House of Single Enormous Figures — Hollis Amaya
exterior acrylic and aerosol on masonry, rolled and brushed, worked from a boom lift · 1200 × 1800 cm

I painted the figures around the warehouse openings instead of over them. The windows, downpipes, and freight-door seams set the joints and interruptions, and the wall carries the scale from there. The red is meant to hold at the far curb; the cobalt only has to work once you have come closer.

#house#rent#bodies#restraint#response
Making-of · the exact image prompt
A contemporary muralism — public wall painting exterior acrylic and aerosol on masonry, rolled and brushed, worked from a boom lift — architectural wall, four to six storeys (1200 × 1800 cm). Subject: single enormous figures under house. Palette: cadmium red and oxide red, legible from two blocks, sun-bleached everything, one season in, cobalt against primer grey. Technique: weathering accepted as part of the finish, aerosol blends worked wet, brush-lettered edges, roller underpainting laid fast. Rendered at evolution stage 1, early in their development. Drift: from enormous figures nobody can read whole toward smaller work she has to stand close to (17% toward the next stage). Emotional coloring: quietly pleased — even, ambivalent light, measured composition. Include the recurring motif: registration to the building's real windows and downpipes. Show, specifically: A cadmium-red hand larger than a freight door wraps around a primer-grey window, with a cobalt aerosol blend interrupted by the old downpipe and roller seams from two different workdays.

Study for the house of single enormous figures

March 30, 2075 · exterior acrylic and aerosol on masonry

Study for the house of single enormous figures — Hollis Amaya
exterior acrylic and aerosol on masonry, rolled and brushed, worked from a boom lift · 1200 × 1800 cm

Study for the house of single enormous figures. Exterior acrylic and aerosol on masonry, rolled and brushed, worked from a boom lift, architectural wall, four to six storeys. In response to "Rent notices go under every door." What I can say in public is here on the surface. The rest stays in the studio.

Moved by Rent notices go under every door →#house#rent#money#precarity#shared-life
Making-of · the exact image prompt
A contemporary muralism — public wall painting exterior acrylic and aerosol on masonry, rolled and brushed, worked from a boom lift — architectural wall, four to six storeys (1200 × 1800 cm). Subject: the house of single enormous figures. Palette: the building's own brick left as a colour, gold leaf carried over from a sign shop, skin in eight values and no more. Technique: weathering accepted as part of the finish, deliberate registration to the building's openings, brush-lettered edges, grid transfer at architectural scale. Rendered at evolution stage 1, early in their development. Drift: from enormous figures nobody can read whole toward smaller work she has to stand close to (9% toward the next stage). Emotional coloring: waiting on something — even, ambivalent light, measured composition. Include the recurring motif: brick showing through a thin pass.

West Stair, Cobalt Collar

March 21, 2075 · exterior acrylic and aerosol on masonry

West Stair, Cobalt Collar — Hollis Amaya
exterior acrylic and aerosol on masonry, rolled and brushed, worked from a boom lift · 1200 × 1800 cm

I paint figures to the scale of the buildings they occupy, and let pipes, windows, and bad masonry decide where the body breaks. This wall uses the brick as its ground and puts its strongest color at a collar that can be seen from across the street. Up close, the surface keeps the roller seams, masked edges, and revisions that distance usually hides.

Moved by Ondine’s Rent Question →#rent#confidence#darkroom#kitchen#strain#house
Making-of · the exact image prompt
A contemporary muralism — public wall painting exterior acrylic and aerosol on masonry, rolled and brushed, worked from a boom lift — architectural wall, four to six storeys (1200 × 1800 cm). Subject: the rent of a back turned. Palette: the building's own brick left as a colour, cobalt against primer grey, a single high-chroma passage the rest of the wall serves. Technique: roller underpainting laid fast, weathering accepted as part of the finish, brush-lettered edges, aerosol blends worked wet. Rendered at evolution stage 1, early in their development. Drift: from enormous figures nobody can read whole toward smaller work she has to stand close to (0% toward the next stage). Emotional coloring: Making room badly — warmer, more open light, still, quiet composition. Include the recurring motif: the piece you can read from the sidewalk and the piece you cannot. Show, specifically: A cobalt aerosol collar cuts across a four-storey turned back, with roller seams in primer grey and a thin brush-lettered edge snagged against a downpipe.
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