ICC Mural: Mural Shift Day 2
The first day I had a mural shift was on a Tuesday. I had to stay three hours and let me tell you, those three hours were definitely not enough. We spotted so many more problems that we’d originally thought we’d have throughout the course of the entire week, but we couldn’t do anything about it at all.
This was a rough sketch of what we had to paint, except the final design had eight players, and black text that spelled; “One Team” then “Juniors” and then “One Dream. The letters were in black, which they still hadn’t done and had taped up the spaces they wanted to do the letters in, leaving them white. They had begun Painting the peoples shirts, although they hadn’t noticed a major issue we noticed about an hour into spray painting the sky. Since the outline of the letters were nothing but an approximate of them, we had tiny blank spaces which left white patches between the sky and the font. Then we had to take out all the scotch tape and repaint most of the wall white, kind of blending and blurring out the white/bald spots. From there we painted the letters black, kind of giving them a darker color so we would be able to differentiate them from the spray paint that would splatter on them when we attempted to paint the sky. After all of that was done, we had to actually do the spray paint, the very middle of the picture was yellow and as it expanded outwards it turned to orange, then pink, then purple and then dark blue. We painted regardless of what was there before covering most of the players uniforms and outlines.
That was one of the major problems within that day, having lost all the effort put in the day prior to to the layers of spray paint that now covered basically everything on the wall.
Another giant obstacle was that whilst setting up one of the poles that held the platform together slipped and a board fell on Jose Ignacio’s head, the mural captain. He had to go home — obviously — and we were left to figure out everything on our own that day. I wish he had been there because being co-captain with Nayoung (who’s shift was the day after) everybody was looking for me to guide them when I was kind of lost myself as well. Somehow everybody also had different ideas of what the spray paint should look like, which caused conflict within the group, although it was fixed — with some people feeling somewhat resentful at the decision made as to how the spray paint would look like.
Overall it was a good and productive day, with its ups and downs. We got to fix what had had been the day prior to and I believe that it ended up being quite good.
